[OpenAFS] how to upgrade to 1.3.x ?

Holger Brueckner brueckner@net-labs.de
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:34:28 +0100


maybe you have on of that f***** up suse installations
which registers its hostname in /etc/hosts to 127.0.0.2 ?


On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 19:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Derrick J Brashear wrote
> 
> > if you're replacing the same system, keep /usr/afs/db/* and
> > /usr/afs/etc/*, and replace the binaries, keep the vice partitions intact.
> 
> Thanks, but I still didn't manage it.
> 
> I made exactly that on an otherwise new root partition with a completely
> new system and OpenAFS 1.3.52 compiled and installed freshly.
> 
> Still I get this - driving my nuts - error
> All services started
> Lost contact with volume location server .... (this is localhost)
> Can't mount AFS on /afs (22)
> 
> I've seen this error message dozens of times on different systems.
> Please tell me how I can debug this.
> I'm not sure if erasing even the /vicep? partitions and starting from
> the very beginning would help.
> 
> Many thanks for your hints,
> Helmut.