[OpenAFS] buserver barfs on "localhost" installation

[Derek Atkins]

You cannot use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as the IP Address.
Ubik will drop the address.  Generally this error means
that the name resolves to a localhost address.

Remove your host's real name mapping to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts
and give it a real IP address.  Then try again.

-derek

Ian D <ian@assv.net> writes:

> I'm trying to set up an AFS server on my laptop, just to try it
> out. When it comes to setting up the buserver, I get a bunch of the
> following messages:
> 
> [root@barbarella afs]# bos create gurksallad.hemma.assv.net buserver
> simple /usr/afs/bin/buserver 
> bos: a pioctl failed (getting tickets)
> bos: running unauthenticated
> /usr/afs/bin/buserver: problems with host name Ubik init failed
> /usr/afs/bin/buserver: problems with host name Ubik init failed
> 
> My machine's hostname is something different, but it's mapped to
> 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts. "gurksallad.hemma.assv.net" is a
> resolvable address, albeit on the loopback also. Adding this address
> to /etc/hosts doesn't help. Running with the machine's hostname
> doesn't work, neither localhost. Any ideas?
> 
> 
> -- 
> /Ian D
> ian@assv.net
> 
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       Derek Atkins
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