Hi ya thanks for reply . does any other pts command work? Try "pts listmax"; does that also hang? :
No , they all hang. they does not do anything ,just sit there CellServDB is set correctly? >> cat CellServDB >cell.local #Cell name 10.0.0.21 #mysql1.cell.local 10.0.0.21 #mysql1 Also, what version of OpenAFS? ->> rpm -qa | grep afs openafs-repository-rhel-1.4.12-1 openafs-compat-1.4.12-el5.1.1 openafs-1.4.12-el5.1.1 openafs-kpasswd-1.4.12-el5.1.1 openafs-client-1.4.12-el5.1.1 openafs-krb5-1.4.12-el5.1.1 openafs-server-1.4.12-el5.1.1 openafs-kernel-source-1.4.12-el5.1.1 host.cell.local doesn't resolve to a 127.* IP address, does it? -> it resolve to 10.0.0.21 cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 10.0.0.21 mysql1.cell.local mysql1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 Thanks again for your help and support Fosiul