Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Rodney M Dyer wrote: > >> 2. Apparently with the latest build 1.4.2fc2 the client service will >> crash on startup. >> >> I did not have time to perform any analysis of these problems. I fixed >> issue 1 just by making the computername shorter. Issue 2 was fixed >> after installing 1.4.1 over 1.4.2fc2 - twice. The first install over >> 1.4.2fc2 was done by our help desk. I personally wouldn't have done it >> that way, thinking that 1.4.1 installer shouldn't know how to uninstall >> a later version. And in fact this causes an issue with the AFS client >> service not being completely removed. So I needed to re-install 1.4.1 >> one more time, hoping this problem would clear it up, and it did. > > BTW, are you really sure that the problem was with 1.4.2fc2 and not > 1.4.2-rc1 or 1.4.2-beta3? > > The reason I ask is that I introduced a bug in 1.4.2-beta3 and fixed > it in 1.4.2-rc2 that would cause afsd_service.exe to crash while > attempting to create the "BackConnectionHostNames" entry in the > registry. This bug would only be triggered on new installs. > > If there is still a problem I need to know about it. > > Jeffrey Altman
I just finished testing 1.4.2fc2 (aka 1-4-2-rc2) on XP SP2 Pro with a hostname of "vmware-xp-longname.domain" which results in a NETBIOS name of "VMWARE-XP-LONGN". AFS then creates its own name of "VMWARE-XP-L-AFS". I performed a clean install of OpenAFS in this configuration. The loopback adapter installed. The first reboot created a BackConnectionHostName entry of "AFS". Accessing AFS was fine. I then disabled the loopback adapter and rebooted. This resulted in the BackConnectionHostName being updated to "AFS VMWARE-XP-L-AFS". Accessing AFS still works. I re-enabled the loopback adapter and rebooted. Again, AFS still works. If there is a problem here, I am going to need more details to find it. NOTE: There was a problem with beta3 and rc1. That was fixed in rc2. If there is still a problem with rc2, please confirm. Jeffrey Altman
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