Thanks for mentioning this, Brent. I have only 256MB of memory, and I have a single processor. I have insmod version 2.3.14. -Gene Brent A Johnson wrote: > > Gene, > > If you have over 1GB of memory or an SMP processor, did you use > the modified insmod to install the client? > > -Brent > > >Hi, I've been trying to troubleshoot this problem I'm > >having with AFS on my machine for several weeks without > >any success. I've done what I can to find the answer on > >the web somehwere without success either. > > > >Anyhow, I have a RedHat 6.2 linux machine (linux kernel > >2.2.14 running on an i686 machine, vendor: VA Linux) > >and I have AFS 3.6 running on it. Through AFS, I can > >read files off of other servers on the AFS network. I > >can even create a file (for example, using touch) or > >delete a file, so I can at least alter directory info. > >But I cannot WRITE to a file on another server. For > >example, if I try 'cat > file1' then a file file1 is > >created, but I cannot write to it. > > > >Allow me to be a little more specific about what I mean > >by "cannot write to it": at the moment that anything is > >written to a file on AFS, my machine completely hangs. > >Everything is frozen; mouse won't move, all processes hang! > >I have to reboot the machine. > > > >This is very reproducible. > > > >I have checked AFS quotas, AFS user and group id's, > >and flushed the AFS cache a few times. Nothing seems > >to help. I've put the cache on a separate disk partition > >to ensure that it has enough disk space, and made sure > >that the appropriate AFS servers are in my CellServDB file. > > > >The only item I have which may or may not be a clue is > >from the /var/log/messages file from startup. The loading > >of afs appears to go just fine, with cache and servers > >loading appropriately. But later, further down the messages > >comes an item from the kernel: > > > >Nov 6 10:56:20 genesis kernel: afs: failed to store file > >(14) > > > >If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks, > > > >-Gene Van Buren > >
