This is a "known bug". The workaround is "don't start afs if /afs doesn't exist".
A patch is in the works to cause afsd to error-out early if /afs doesn't exist. -derek Marc Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Maybe this has been reported yet: > > I`m using RedHat 7.1 with OpenAFS 1.2.2-rh7.1.1, tried with several > kernels (2.4.9-6, 2.4.9-12, 2.4.9-21, 2.4.17). NIC is an eepro100. > > To create a kernel Oops, simply do the following: > - /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs stop (AFS shuts down properly) > - rmdir /afs > - /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs start > (Found libafs-2.4.9-21.o from SymTable... Loading... > Starting AFS services..... > afsd: All AFS daemons started. > afsd: Can't mount AFS on /afs(2)) > - lsmod shows libafs-2.4.9-21 396768 0 (unused) > - rmmod libafs-2.4.9-21 (Oops) > > The machine won`t recover properly, trying to start AFS in this state > gives on my machine the following: > > 10:20am up 18:00, 3 users, load average: 6.98, 2.58, 0.93 > 86 processes: 75 sleeping, 10 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.5% user, 99.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > Mem: 255124K av, 207560K used, 47564K free, 0K shrd, > 16656K buff > Swap: 530104K av, 0K used, 530104K free > 87664K cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 10497 root 20 -10 776 776 764 R < 15.7 0.3 0:18 afsd > 10494 root 14 0 776 776 768 R 11.8 0.3 0:13 afsd > 10496 root 14 0 776 776 772 R 11.8 0.3 0:13 afsd > 10498 root 14 0 776 776 772 R 11.8 0.3 0:13 afsd > 10499 root 14 0 776 776 772 R 11.8 0.3 0:13 afsd > 10500 root 14 0 776 776 772 R 11.8 0.3 0:13 afsd > 10501 root 14 0 776 776 772 R 11.8 0.3 0:13 afsd > 10502 root 14 0 776 776 772 R 11.8 0.3 0:13 afsd > > > Regards, > Marc > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
