There is an open ticket in OpenAFS RT with an Apple Bug number associated with it.
Work arounds for OpenAFS users: 1. Modify the base address of the mdnsNSP.dll 2. Upgrade to a 64-bit version of Windows 3. Reduce the size of the cache to 500MB. Jeffrey Altman ENEM | Hans Melgers wrote: > Thanks for the update, i just had a first case with this problem. > Is apple informed about this (and is there a chance they will change it ?) ? > Is it possible to get a workaround in future versions in case they don’t ? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jeffrey Altman > Sent: woensdag 10 juni 2009 18:38 > To: openafs > Subject: [OpenAFS] iTunes Update breaks OpenAFS for Windows on 32-bit Windows > > > Please advise your help desk staff to be on the lookout for a sudden > increase in complaints about OpenAFS for Windows not working. > > The symptoms are that \\AFS is inaccessible and an examination of the > %windir%\temp\afsd_init.log file indicates a memory mapping failure when > attempting to load the AFSCache file. This problem is likely to affect > any user of OpenAFS for Windows on 32-bit Windows with iTunes installed > that set their cache size to be larger than 500mb. > > The problem: > > Apple updated the Bonjour distribution as part of the most recent iTunes > update. Included in the distribution is a file called mdnsNSP.dll which > is inserted into the process memory space of every application on the > system that makes use of the WinSock APIs. This DLL permits Bonjour > discovery services to be used as a DNS replacement automatically. Apple > set an image base of (16080000 to 160A4FFF) which is smack in the middle > of the 32-bit process data range instead of using a value around > 60000000 as recommended by Microsoft. > > The work around: > > The Microsoft SDK provides a tool called rebase.exe which is used by > developers to modify the base address of a DLL. The following > operations can be used to move mdnsNSP.dll to the correct location in > memory. > > 1. cd to c:\program files\bonjour > 2. rename mdnsNSP.dll to mdnsNSP.dll.inuse > 3. copy mdnsNSP.dll.inuse to mdnsNSP.dll > 4. rebase -d -b 0x60000000 mdnsNSP.dll > > The next time the OpenAFS for Windows service is started the dll will be > loaded into the correct range in memory. > > Unfortunately, it is likely that the next iTunes update will break this > again. End users are also unlikely to have access to the rebase.exe > command. > > The command "dumpbin /headers mdnsNSP.dll" can be used to determine the > image base. > > The affected version of mdnsNSP.dll is 1.0.6.2. > > Jeffrey Altman > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
