Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Matthew Miller wrote: It's not necessary anymore, basically. The only patch I'm still applying is authclient.patch, and that's only because Thomas Chung told me to do it. :) That issue should be fixed also.

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Jason McCormick wrote: Just so I know what to test, is it anticipated that this fixes all previous kernel oops reported before as well as all disk cache issues, including cache consistency problems? One platform-neutral cache consistency issue probably still exists (the "commo

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Jason McCormick
--On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:08:53 AM -0500 Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ >> Anyway, looks like things are in pretty workable shape at this point; >> maybe time for a 1.3.78? > > Soon. Just so I know what to test, is it anticipated that this fixes all previous kernel oops repor

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Jason McCormick
Heh, I'm just finished up the builds of the snapshot for 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 right now. Earlier tests seem to be fine although I had an oddity with memcache complaining about being unable to allocate 8M of RAM and oopsing. I have to look into that more tomorrow when I'm in front of the box. -- Jason

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:20:36AM -0500, Jason McCormick wrote: > Are you applying any of the previous patches we've been using for the > 2.6.10 stuff? "Zombie-workaround" patch still applies cleanly. It applies cleanly because all it does is disable the entire body of the function, and there's

RE: [OpenAFS] setpag: Invalid argument + fledgling documentation

2005-01-18 Thread ted creedon
The "fledgling documentation effort" is experimenting with pdf-xml-LateX transformations. Xml can be served up directly by platform. One of the nice things about IBM's docs is that they cover all platforms but in an unwieldly single document. The reduction of the quick start guide to a Linux onl

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Jason McCormick w rites: Great! I'll have test packages for us done shortly. i still manage to see a problem with 2.6 flushing dcache children (i have a directory with lots of child entries). it gets stuck walk

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Jason McCormick w rites: >Great! I'll have test packages for us done shortly. i still manage to see a problem with 2.6 flushing dcache children (i have a directory with lots of child entries). it gets stuck walking d_alias. the following seems to cure my problem.

Re: [OpenAFS] setpag: Invalid argument

2005-01-18 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, John Tang Boyland wrote: I'm using OpenAFS 1.2.10 on Solaris 8. A strange thing had been happening: pagsh didn't work anymore. I had a long-going console login (with a PAG) and within it, a shell that was running a pagsh with a different pag, but I wasn't able to start up new

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Jason McCormick
>> Are you applying any of the previous patches we've been using for the >> 2.6.10 stuff? "Zombie-workaround" patch still applies cleanly. > > it probably does, but is no longer needed as of sunday's cvs. Great! I'll have test packages for us done shortly. -- Jason McCormick CERT Infrastructur

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Jason McCormick wrote: --On Monday, January 17, 2005 11:53:56 PM -0500 Matthew Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got this morning's snapshot and built it against the 2.6.10 errata kernels, and everything seems to be playing nicely. No files eaten by vim, and no oopses. I hav

[OpenAFS] setpag: Invalid argument

2005-01-18 Thread John Tang Boyland
I'm using OpenAFS 1.2.10 on Solaris 8. A strange thing had been happening: pagsh didn't work anymore. I had a long-going console login (with a PAG) and within it, a shell that was running a pagsh with a different pag, but I wasn't able to start up new pagsh's, I got the message: setpag: I

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Jason McCormick
--On Monday, January 17, 2005 11:53:56 PM -0500 Matthew Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got this morning's snapshot and built it against the 2.6.10 errata > kernels, and everything seems to be playing nicely. No files eaten by vim, > and no oopses. I haven't tried the rsync-huge-amounts-of

Re: [OpenAFS] 2005-01-17 snapshot: good so far on Fedora Core 2.6.10 kernels

2005-01-18 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Matthew Miller wrote: I got this morning's snapshot and built it against the 2.6.10 errata kernels, and everything seems to be playing nicely. No files eaten by vim, and no oopses. I haven't tried the rsync-huge-amounts-of-data test -- is that problem supposed to be fixed? Anyw

Re: [OpenAFS] where to put NetRestrict?

2005-01-18 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Hagbard Celine wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:54:35 +0100, Sergio Gelato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I would not be too surprised to learn that the 1.2.3 build did indeed use /etc/openafs/server-local . Actually, I'm using version 1.3.74 from the experimental repository (1.

Re: [OpenAFS] naive questions about openafs

2005-01-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:13:55AM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > There is also a package krbafs-utils, described as "A Kerberos to AFS > bridging library", that doesn't seems to be sufficient to access afs > filesystems. Right; it isn't. > I had a look at the rpm available from openafs websi

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Woah, it seems like it's working (1.3.77+ on 2.6.10)

2005-01-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:03:24AM +0100, Carsten Schulz-Key wrote: > the procedure is much easier if you save the page as text instead of the > original HTML format. You can directly feed this page into patch, the mail > junk will be ignored: Also, instead of the sed business, use 'patch -p1'.

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS-Client crashes AIX 5.1

2005-01-18 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:45, Horst Birthelmer wrote: > > This is IMHO not the same problem. It doesn't look like a kernel > allocation problem to me. > BTW, can you start your client with -nosettime. I had some problems > with that in the past, and never got the time to look deeper into it.

Re: [OpenAFS] Further Problem with 1.3.77 under AIX 5.1

2005-01-18 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
On Thursday 13 January 2005 16:26, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Hans-Gunther Borrmann wrote: > > ° The fileservers are multihomed. The test-machine has no access to > > 10.1.2.x, the fileservers are only reachable by their 132.230.6.x > > adresses. > > I can give you a patch for

Re: [OpenAFS] naive questions about openafs

2005-01-18 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
> "Guillaume" == Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guillaume> I'm interested about being able to use afs from Guillaume> mandrake, because it is widely used in my Guillaume> institution. Guillaume> So my naive question is: do I really need openafs for Guillaume>

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS-Client crashes AIX 5.1

2005-01-18 Thread Horst Birthelmer
On Jan 18, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Hans-Gunther Borrmann wrote: After the installation of this version on my test machine I started the client, got a token and tard my AFS home directory to /dev/null. After some time the system crashed. Crash information follows: SYSTEM STATUS: sysname... AIX nodena

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS-Client crashes AIX 5.1

2005-01-18 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
Hello all, What I did: I compiled openafs-snap-2005-01-17 under AIX 5.1with the following patch to rxkad.p.h, which defines the max ticket length as 344: *** rxkad.p.h 2005-01-18 09:52:10.0 +0100 --- ./rxkad.p.h.orig2004-12-07 17:49:11.0 +0100 *** *** 17,23 ***

Re: [OpenAFS] crash on AIX 5.2

2005-01-18 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
On Monday 17 January 2005 16:21, Horst Birthelmer wrote: > der Absturz ist in der xmalloc Routine. Genau die, die schon immer bei > grossen Tickets abstuerzt. > Am einfachsten also die Ticketsize ohne "ifdefs" und Co. fest auf 344 > Bytes setzen, OpenAFS neu uebersetzen und nochmal probieren. > Of

Re: [OpenAFS] where to put NetRestrict?

2005-01-18 Thread Hagbard Celine
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:54:35 +0100, Sergio Gelato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I would not be too surprised to learn that the 1.2.3 build did indeed use > /etc/openafs/server-local . > Actually, I'm using version 1.3.74 from the experimental repository (1.3.74-1). It's not top notch but it'

[OpenAFS] naive questions about openafs

2005-01-18 Thread Guillaume Rousse
I'm interested about being able to use afs from mandrake, because it is widely used in my institution. However, I'm totally clueless about afs, so it's a bit difficult for me to figure what is needed exactly. First, current mdk kernel (2.6.10) ships an afs module. However, looking at source fil

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Woah, it seems like it's working (1.3.77+ on 2.6.10)

2005-01-18 Thread Carsten Schulz-Key
Hi, William John Murray wrote: > Now I am very happy to re-check on 14-01-17, but perhaps there is a >better way to store patches than as plain text attachments in the >archive, so the html reformatting doesn't have to be undone? Or maybe >it exists already and I didn't know of it? the proced

[OpenAFS] Re: Woah, it seems like it's working (1.3.77+ on 2.6.10)

2005-01-18 Thread William John Murray
Thanks all for this. It certainly works nicely with a 2.6.10-1.737_FC3 kernel. Two things: *) Unexpected bonus! The previous 1.3.77 + 2.6.9 combination worked find, but I could usually not 'rmmod libafs', so shutdown of my laptop would hang. This has not happened with this version. *) G