> > I'm wondering, where do we go from here? Is this fileserver a
> > viable long-term solution for a production server? We will
> > have to decide soon whether to 1) downgrade from SuSE 9.0 to 8.2
> > (which we know to work well with OpenAFS) or 2) to wait for a fix
> > or 3) continue using this fileserver.
>
> Before, you could setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1 and use the tviced
> (pthreads) fileserver and all would be well. I bet that isn't true
> anymore.
We tried this. You're correct -- it doesn't work.
> > Is there anything else that we should try to help to identify the
> > problem?
>
> If you feel like debugging the pthreads implementation you have and
> figuring out how it's different from every other
> implementation, well, I
> suspect you don't, but that's what's needed.
You're correct again (sorry!).
However, we did try one more thing which didn't work either:
In SuSE 9.0 there are 2 pthreads libraries, one in /lib and one
in /lib/i686. The tviced fileserver uses the one in /lib/i686.
We tried the one in /lib (via LD_LIBRARY_PATH) and we ran into
the same problems.
To summarize, the OpenAFS 1.2.11 server doesn't run well on SuSE 9.0
because of the implementation of the pthreads library on that distro.
It would be great to have a fix if possible.
We'll switch to SuSE 8.2, which should be fine. Thanks for your help.
Dave
