On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Charles Clancy wrote: > > > So, a file from my thesis has suddenly stopped being accessable. I last > > > accessed it from a WinXP machine running OpenAFS 1.2.6. Now, I'm trying > > > to access it from my Solaris 8 client/server running 1.2.6 and getting > > > "Value too large for defined data type". I can still access the file just > > > fine from Windows. > > > > I think this is fixed in 1.2.7; It's a problem with the date being > > negative, maybe. Touch the file from somewhere to update the timestamp and > > it should then be ok. > > At the moment, I only have a Windows client and a Solaris client. > Accessing the file from Windows doesn't help the situation, and I can't > touch the file from Solaris without getting the same error. As long as > it's been fixed in 1.2.7, that's fine with me. I've sftp'd the file > around and gotten things going again. > > Interestingly enough, two PowerPoint presentations I saved in AFS space > from the XP client are perfectly readable under Solaris. > > Was it a Solaris bug, a Windows bug, or a general bug?
The bug in Windows was setting the bad value, and the bug in Solaris (maybe on 64 bit Solaris only) was dealing with the bad time poorly. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
