According to Chas Williams:
> [IRIX machine hanging upon AFS startup]
> [...]
> just upgraded to 6.5.10m on my r5000 indy and i still cant run n32
> binaries with vanilla afs 3.6.
Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here but I had a similar problem
with a couple of AIX 4.3.3 machines using AFS 3.4 and 3.5. The symptom
was like this: After starting the AFS client and server processes I
could change directories and, if I remember correctly, list directory
contents. However, as soon as there was a file read operation, the
process would block (just that process, the machine itself did not
hang). The machines behaved nicely when I started the AFS processes
after booting by hand.
It took me a while to solve this puzzle, the solution was to rearange
the startup sequence. The current sequence is like this:
/usr/afs/bin/dkload/cfgexport -a /usr/afs/bin/dkload/export.ext
/usr/afs/bin/dkload/cfgafs -a /usr/afs/bin/dkload/afs.ext
/usr/vice/etc/afsd -stat 2800 -dcache 2400 -daemons 5 -volumes 128
/usr/afs/bin/bosserver &
I later ran into the same problem on a AIX 4.2 machine which served as
a fileserver for two years before. Starting bosserver after afsd
solved the problem again. In all cases, bosserver started a fileserver
process which only had empty partitions. This seems to indicate that
there might be a weird timing interference somewhere in the guts of
AFS.
+gg
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