Well, backing out of patch 7 did the trick. I'll try patch 8
when it comes out...........Paul
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>>>Craig Huckabee said:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Paul J. Sala wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Paul J. Sala || Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > IBM Microelectronics || Phone: (802) 769-8823
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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/
>
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