On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Derrick Brashear wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Thomas Briggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm using OpenAFS 1.5.77 on Snow Leopard (10.6.4) on a laptop.  Last night, 
>> I forgot to shutdown AFS before I left an internet connected world.  When I 
>> opened up in an area that had no internet access (yes, there are such places 
>> left in the US), I could not shutdown it down using the AFS menu.  Is there 
>> any way to do this without rebooting?  (I don't have OpenAFS running at 
>> startup b/c of this).
>> 
> 
> all the menu does (i think) is the equivalent of sudo kill (pid of
> launchafs), which runs the shutdown script. if you can reproduce this,
> run "cmdebug localhost" while offline and you are killing afs, and
> share the output?
> 
> i don't shut it down; it's harmless to leave running.

My experience with this (Snowleopard, 1.5.7x) matches Derrick. My laptop does 
not mount oAFS on boot because if you're in a non-internet situation it slows 
the boot down badly, but once it's up the only problem you have when 
disconnected is access to AFS-based files is rather poor. :-)

If I recall correctly, *if you wait long enough* the shutdown of oAFS does 
eventually succeed. That time, given that I had a files/volumes referenced in 
AFS, was very very long. Maybe hours. Better to leave it up.

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