[LU-13233] sanity test 161a fails with 'bad link ea'

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Priority: Minor
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.14.0
• Labels: ppc
• Environment: PPC clients
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: WC Triage
• Reporter: James Nunez (Inactive)

Description

sanity test_161a fails with 'bad link ea' fails 100% of the time for PPC client testing starting on 27 SEPT 2019.

Looking at a recent failure at https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/d3720002-4a27-11ea-b69a-52540065bddc, we see that we are having problems with path2fid/fid2path

== sanity test 161a: link ea sanity ================================================================== 01:25:04 (1581125104)
lfs path2fid: cannot get fid for '/mnt/lustre/d161a.sanity/f161a.sanity': No data available
lfs fid2path: <fsname|rootpath> and <fid>... must be specified
Resolve the full path(s) for given FID(s). For a specific hardlink specify link number <linkno>.
usage: fid2path [-c] [--link|-l <linkno>] <fsname|root> <fid> ...
lfs fid2path: <fsname|rootpath> and <fid>... must be specified
Resolve the full path(s) for given FID(s). For a specific hardlink specify link number <linkno>.
usage: fid2path [-c] [--link|-l <linkno>] <fsname|root> <fid> ...
 sanity test_161a: @@@@@@ FAIL: bad link ea 
  Trace dump:
  = /usr/lib64/lustre/tests/test-framework.sh:6121:error()
  = /usr/lib64/lustre/tests/sanity.sh:14413:test_161a()

The portion of test 161a that is failing is

14402         local FID=$($LFS path2fid $DIR/$tdir/$tfile | tr -d '[]')
14403         if [ "$($LFS fid2path $DIR $FID | wc -l)" != "5" ]; then
14404                 $LFS fid2path $DIR $FID
14405                 error "bad link ea"
14406         fi

Logs for more sanity test 161a test failures are at
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/9fb557d8-2591-11ea-80b4-52540065bddc
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/66d1b122-fd65-11e9-bbc3-52540065bddc