[OpenAFS] AIX client panics machine if ThisCell is invalid
Hartmut Reuter
reuter@rzg.mpg.de
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:02:09 +0100
Have you started afsd with -afsdb ? This at least crashed my client
under AIX 5.2 regularly.
Hartmut
Ben Staffin wrote:
> So ... I discovered the hard way that (on AIX at least) if you put a
> non-existent cellname in /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell and start the AFS
> client, the system will panic as soon as afsd is started. Weird, huh?
> Pretty obscure error condition, but still ... kernel panic? Yow.
>
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