It seems a dead server over in CAS was the cause of my most recent obituary troubles. Yesterday I noticed a quartet of unprocessed obituaries that had hung around for toooo loooong. Thwaping the system didn't seem to fix it.
Until I looked really closely at the External Reference check log. It seems that this particular move was waiting to notify certain servers that held backlinks of the move. One of the servers was incommunicado. Due to the network excitement of the past two days I didn't learn until this afternoon that the server in question has died the bad death and would I please remove it from the tree.
So I do. I check the obits, and we're down to six. A few gentle taps, and they're gone on all the replica servers. Ahhhhhh.
Until I looked really closely at the External Reference check log. It seems that this particular move was waiting to notify certain servers that held backlinks of the move. One of the servers was incommunicado. Due to the network excitement of the past two days I didn't learn until this afternoon that the server in question has died the bad death and would I please remove it from the tree.
So I do. I check the obits, and we're down to six. A few gentle taps, and they're gone on all the replica servers. Ahhhhhh.