Frédéric Grelot <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm using openafs 1.4.11 (default version on ubuntu karmic), with a
> "standard" kerberos configuration, together with libnss-afs and nscd to
> allow user home directories to be seamlessly translated.

> I just experienced several complete afs crashes, while I was trying to
> run evince (the pdf reader). It seems, according to dmesg, that it
> happens when evince tries to access the special file "~/.ICEauthority",
> which must be (I'm not sure) a socket file of some sort.

> The session then hangs completely, and I couldn't find any other way
> than logging as root and "# reboot" to get my system back.

> I managed to get the logs with dmesg : the first time, it mentionned
> .ICEauthority, which I deleted before trying again, but it crashed
> anyway.

> The first log (syslog) is :
> kernel: [ 9522.432659] type=1503 audit(1258492388.453:26): operation="open" 
> pid=5987 parent=1 profile="/usr/bin/evince" requested_mask="r::" 
> denied_mask="r::" fsuid=20001 ouid=20001 
> name="/afs/cell.tld/user/u/us/user/.ICEauthority"

You either need openafs 1.4.11+dfsg-5 packages, which have a fix for this,
or disable AppArmor.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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