[OpenAFS] Unable to stop AFS

[Jan Hrabe]

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On Wednesday 03 October 2001 01:35 pm, you wrote:
> This is a known problem with Linux 2.4.x and is being actively
> worked on.  Unfortunately it is not something that can be
> reliably reproduced.  In particular, if you run:
>
> 	/etc/rc.d/init.d/afs start
> 	/etc/rc.d/init.d/afs stop
>
> AFS will generally stop without error.  The current theory is that
> there is some descriptor leak in the 2.4 port that causes afs
> to be unable to unmount itself at shutdown.
>
> You will notice that OpenAFS on Red Hat 6.2 (Linux 2.2) does not
> have this same problem.
>
> -derek
>

Thanks to all who responded. I tried the "fuser -mk /afs" that Brian
suggested but it did not help in our case. We will postpone 
the RH 7.1 deployment a bit till this gets solved. I'd be happy to
test any OpenAFS version aimed at fixing this problem. 

Honza

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