Dear Paul,
> Transarc AFS Release Notes for AFS 3.6 on Linux:
> http://www.transarc.com/Library/documentation/afs/3.6/unix/en_US/HTML/index.htm
>
> "The General Availability release of AFS 3.6 supports Red Hat Software's
> Linux 6.0 (which incorporates kernel version 2.2.5-15) and Linux 6.1 (which
> incorporates kernel version 2.2.12-20). The distribution also includes AFS
> kernel extensions for kernel versions 2.2.10, 2.2.12, 2.2.13, and 2.2.14."
>
> "For correct AFS performance, the operating system must use the C library
> called libc6 (or glibc2), rather than libc5 (glibc1)."
Debian 2.1 ships with glibc2, 2.0.7. That's libc6, or glibc2.
Debian 2.2 ships with glibc2, 2.1.3. So is that.
If both are running kernel 2.2.16, afsd fails on 2.1 and works on 2.2.
If Debian 2.1 is upgraded to glibc2 2.1.3, afsd works on that too.
Now, somebody pointed out to me that using a replacement glibc2 2.1.x
via LD_LIBRARY_PATH just for afsd would solve the problem. Of course.
I need to be shot for being stupid and not having thought of this, but
that doesn't change the fact AFS documentation is still incomplete, if
not even incorrect, with regard to this.
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