out of shares error

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
> I just rebuilt tahoe-lafs from pkgsrc with updated py-OpenSSL and the
> newly vast set of dependencies for it.   So far everything seems to be
> ok.  I ran a deep-check --add-lease over an alias with about 5500
> objects (and I believe all is healthy).
>
> After a long time of 'NN00 objects checked', I got:
>
> 5500 objects checked..
> ERROR: NotEnoughSharesError(ran out of shares: complete=
>     pending=Share(sh9-on-[redacted]),Share(sh3-on-[redacted]) overdue=
>     unused= need 3. Last failure: None)
> "[Failure instance: Traceback (failure with no frames): <class
>     'allmydata.interfaces.NotEnoughSharesError'>: ran out of shares:
>     complete= pending=Share(sh9-on-[redacted]),Share(sh3-on-[redacted])
>     overdue= unused= need 3. Last failure: None"
>
> and I'm wondering if that's running out of memory in the tahoe process,
> vs a remote filesystem error.

Hrm, this is confusing. Is it saying that it finished checking all
5500, and then… *after* it finished checking them it reported this
error?

Could you run a "deep-check" operation in the WUI instead of the CLI
and see if that gives more understandable results?

Regards,

Zooko