[OpenAFS] mysterious freezes

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:

> Thus spake Lee Damon (nomad@crow.ee.washington.edu):
>
> > They are frequently pingable, and when you telnet to a port (22, for
> > example) you get a connection, but no banner.
>
> Hey, I'm not the only one!!! Great!  (sorry, but I'm somewhat frustrated
> with this)
>
> I've got a client machine running SuSE 8.1 (we can't upgrade for some
> reasons) and with older kernel versions we had no problems. After
> updating the kernel beyond 2.4.19-257 (or so...) the machine freezes in
> the way you describe. I can ping the machine, I can telnet without
> banner, no response to the keyboard, nothing on the screen, no logs.
>
> I tried OpenAFS 1.2.8, 1.2.9 and 1.2.10. No luck.
>
> Any hints?

have you tried making sure the screen never blanks, to see if anything's
there, or is the screen already unblank and just has nothing on it?