On Friday, February 02, 2007 01:01:47 PM +0100 Jasper Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

we recently migrated our AFS setup to version 1.4.2. Since then, we have
spurious problems on our linux clients (the windows clients are running
fine). Specifically, after some time, users only see strange permissions
(usually just a row of question marks instead of the normal output in ls
-l)

That's what recent versions of GNU ls do when they can't stat a file, for example because you have no access.


Sometimes, it heals itself, usually, users have to log in and log out.
Syslog has entries like:

Feb  2 12:56:46 brummer kernel: afs_NewVCache: warning none freed, using
3000 of 3000
Feb  2 12:56:46 brummer kernel: afs_NewVCache - none freed

This means there are no free vcache entries. Either there is a leak, or you have more than 3000 AFS files in use. Try giving afsd a larger value for the -stat switch.

We are using linux kernel 2.6.19 from Fedora Core 6, together with
OpenAFS 1.4.2 on the clients.

You got 1.4.2 to build against 2.6.19? That's a neat trick. For 2.6.19 you should need at least 1.4.3rc1 (and you really want rc2, which fixes some build issues and a nasty problem with clients crashing when a vlserver is down, but that's not out yet).

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Sr. Research Systems Programmer
  School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
  Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA

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