Log: http://conference.openafs.org/[email protected]/2014-04-30.html
[Note the .html suffix instead of the former .txt one. This was the first meeting on the new infrastructure server hosted by MIT - thanks to Daria, Ben and Simon for the migration effort] Participants: * Andrew Deason * Ben Kaduk * Daria Brashear * Jeffrey Altman * Mike Meffie * Stephan Wiesand == Next stable branch(es) == The RXGK changes queued in gerrit for master ( http://gerrit.openafs.org/#q,status:open+project:openafs+branch:master+topic:rxgk,n,z ) have reached the point where people may want to start testing them, but merging them requires the new to-become-stable branches for Windows and Unix/Linux to be created before. Ben thinks that maintaining the current stack is not a huge burden right now, but the next step may be harder to maintain. Alas, no progress. This topic obviously must be discussed and decided elsewhere. == Problem reports == === Fileserver crash in libkrb5 (RT #131852) === Believed to affect Solaris and AIX, not Linux or FreeBSD, and only sites using Heimdal (which isn't trivial to build on the affected platforms). Affects all releases since 1.6.5. A simple workaround (touch rxkad.keytab) exists for all known occurrences of the problem but may cause others to go unnoticed. Gerrit 11075 works around the known instances of the problem without that side effect, but is not a complete solution either. Decision: Andrew will bring up the issue on openafs-info, thus warning the (probably very few) sites that could encounter this issue. 11075 will be included in a future (pre-)release if it's still necessary. === Linux callback processing failures with 1.6.8pre2 (RT #131855) === Hard to investigate, because it only happens in the reporting site's production environment. Even test systems there with identical software setup don't exhibit the bug. Signature: when a directory is renamed and a new one created with the same name, other clients may see the old content. More information will be added to the RT entry. Reverting 10948 and 10804 fixes the problem but makes the getcwd ENOENT problem reappear. Decision: We'll wait for another week for results of the ongoing investigation. If this can't be sorted out in time, we may revert the two changes before the 1.6.8 release. If there's no other change, this may not even warrant a pre3. == Linux news == 3.15-rc3 was released. Marc tested against rc3+ yesterday, and we're still good. Marc also reports that most likely patches will be required for 3.16, which is expected to be released in ~4.5 months. This may make it feasible to address 3.16 in 1.6.9 rather than a 1.6.8.1. == 1.6.8 release == Stephan uploaded the last pre2 binaries for RHEL/Fedora built by Stephen in Edinburgh today. Despite the known problems described above, testing pre2 still makes sense since sites are unlikely to hit them [and if they do, all the better]. The new binaries will be announced on -info. == Testing == Now that the nature and scope of the known problems is more clear, Andrew will approach the sites that volunteered for testing prereleases about 1.6.8pre2. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
