On 9/25/07, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > since I got a mail from another person who had this same problem, I > > would like to follow up on this. Here's what I wrote back in august: > > [...] > > > The problem seems to be independent of the server(s) or cell, because it > > also happens when I try to access public cells on the internet, running > > completely unauthenticated, like: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % LANG="" ll /afs/grand.central.org/ > > ls: cannot access /afs/grand.central.org/local: No such file or > directory > > ls: cannot access /afs/grand.central.org/software: No such file or > directory > > total 14K > > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 2.0K Jun 17 2004 archive/ > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 2.0K May 7 2006 cvs/ > > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 2.0K Mar 21 2003 doc/ > > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? local > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 2.0K Jun 17 2005 project/ > > drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 2.0K Jan 30 2007 service/ > > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? software > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 2.0K Aug 25 00:15 user/ > > drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 2.0K Aug 24 20:10 www/ > > [...] > > > Kernel: Vanilla 2.6.22.7 > > OpenAFS: Gentoo Package openafs-kernel-1.4.4_p20070724-r2 > > It looks like this is Linux kernel breakage. According to a Debian bug > reporter with the same problem, it appears to reliably trigger on x86 with > 2.6.22.6, and reliably not trigger with 2.6.22.5. He's seeing the problem > on x86_64 on both 2.6.22.5 and 2.6.22.7, but this wouldn't be the first > time that something changed on x86_64 first. > > I haven't had a chance to double-check that I'm *not* seeing this on my > x86_64 system with an older kernel, but I know I wasn't earlier. > > I have no idea what might have broken.
Having fstrace output might help here.
