On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Paul J. Sala wrote:
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> I have an application that runs on my Windows NT 4.0 server.
> Each night the application retrieves a file out of afs
> and then updates a DB. Then it retrieves another file from afs
> and updates another DB.
>
> After installing patch 7, things broke. The 1st file is retrieved
> and the DB updates. But when the application attempts to retrieve the
> 2nd file from afs, it fails.
>
> The error message is:
> File is not accessible. The remote server has been
> paused or is in the process of being started.
>
> This error message may not be valid because, I know the remote
> server is neither paused or being started, as I can access
> the file from other NT clients.
>
> Any one seen anything like this or know what the problem is.
>
> Thanks...........Paul
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> Paul J. Sala || Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> IBM Microelectronics || Phone: (802) 769-8823
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We found quite a few bugs in Patch 7 - file open operations from within
certain applications broke, how AFS treated ".." was broken (it could
cause xcopy to go into a recursive loop), etc.
We found & reported all of these 1 day after Patch 7 came out and Transarc
sent us a few test Patch 8 builds a few days later that included fixes for
these problems.
After we reported some new problems/issues with that build of Patch 8,
and tesing a few more of the test/debugging builds of Patch 8
Transarc said they'd be releasing Patch 8 soon - like
next week.
I'd either back out Patch 7 and wait for Patch 8 to come out. As I
understand it, we weren't the only site to report problems and there were
a few other sites that actually helped test Patch 8 as well, so this
one should be good.
--Craig
Craig Huckabee E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Systems Lab, Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~huck/
