Openafs woes
Greetings-
I'm running debian woody on a home machine that's behind an NAT
masquerader (also woody). The home machine runs the OpenAFS client to
connect to the UNC campus's AFS shared directory space. Generally this
works fine, but there's one situation that consistently causes a problem.
The scenario is this:
1.) Cable modem service dies while a file in the AFS space is open
(usually a perl or latex file in emacs).
2.) Cable modem service returns, and IP connectivity is fine (including to
the AFS server).. BUT
3.) attempting to access files and directories in the AFS space results in
"no such file or directory."
4.) tokens reports appropriate kerberos tokens for the user
5.) klog lets me create new tokens seamlessly, but none of this allows for
actually accessing the AFS space.
6.) I can umount /afs (as root) but can't remount it. If I try
/etc/init.d/openafs-client start, I get "I/O error." If I try restart,
the system hangs completely, requiring a cold reboot (power cycle).
Does anyone know a solution or workaround for this?
Using OpenAFS 1.2.5-1, kernel 2.4.18 (custom).
Thanks.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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