We are using AFS 3.2b with AIX 3.2.4.
We have found that items started at boot time from /etc/rc.local which
depend on files in AFS often (but not always) fail to start.
For example:
if [ -x /usr/local/X11R5/bin/xdm -a -f /usr/local/xdmR5/xdm-config ] ; t
hen
su root "-c /usr/local/X11R5/bin/xdm -config /usr/local/xdmR5/xd
m-config"
fi
almost always fails to execute. That is, one of the files in the 'if'
expression is not found.
This is in spite of the fact that afs is started _long_ before
rc.local is run. This is the first part of our /etc/inittab:
init:2:initdefault:
brc::sysinit:/sbin/rc.boot 3 >/dev/console 2>&1 # Phase 3 of system boot
powerfail::powerfail:/etc/rc.powerfail >/dev/console 2>&1 # d51225
rc:2:wait:/etc/rc > /dev/console 2>&1 # Multi-User checks
fbcheck:2:wait:/usr/lib/dwm/fbcheck >/dev/console 2>&1 # run /etc/firstboot
rcafs:2:wait:/etc/start_afs > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start AFS daemons
srcmstr:2:respawn:/etc/srcmstr # System Resource Controller
rctcpip:2:wait:/etc/rc.tcpip > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start TCP/IP daemons
rcnfs:2:wait:/etc/rc.nfs > /dev/console 2>&1 # Start NFS Daemons
rclocal:2:wait:/etc/rc.local > /dev/console 2>&1 # Do local initializations
. . .
It appears that there is some invisible timeout period for an AFS file
reference after which afsd will simply give up and report the file as
non-existant.
Is this a known problem? Has anyone else experienced/solved this?
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