[OpenAFS-devel] 1.3.79 on AIX 5.2, system dump when using token

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Friday, February 25, 2005 06:02:52 PM +0100 Harald Barth 
<haba@pdc.kth.se> wrote:

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>> One other thing I do the old way is checking for dead servers. My
>> feeling is that the official code has a bug which makes randomly servers
>> appear down if you have one which is really down in your cell.
>
> Hallo Hartmut - I saw this and my friday-fried brain did go "PING!":
>
> I think I see this too with new 1.3.78 clients (fedora3). Can
> you point me what patch I should try to back out?
>
> In addition to that I think there is something broken in the dynroot
> corner, but I have not found a way to reproduce it or debug it.
> fs checks reports everything OK but ls /afs hangs infinitely.
> I have disabled dynroot but still se occasionaly "server down"
> in spite that server being up up up!

By default, 'fs checks' only tells you about things in your home cell.
If you are running without fakestat, then your 'ls /afs' is probably losing 
on statting the root.cell of some other cell.

-- Jeff