Lifecycle Policies do not remove any files anymore from certain buckets

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Environment

SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

Situation

Policies are configured to remove files after 1 day, but files older than this are still present in certain buckets.

Resolution

As a workaround set the rgw_lc_lock_max_time configuration parameter to the "magic" value "9969", for example:

radosgw-admin lc process --rgw_lc_lock_max_time=9969

Cause

The output of the command "radosgw-admin lc list" show for the problematic buckets the "started" field with a strange time in future, for example:

"bucket": "<bucket_name>",
"started": "Mon, 22 Oct 2085 00:25:23 GMT",
"status": "UNINITIAL"

Resulting in the process thread skipping these buckets thus showing the status "UNINITIAL". It is not known how the date got set to this future time.

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