[OpenAFS] crash on AIX 5.2

[Hartmut Reuter]

I am in the process of tracking down all differences between my good 
version and 1.3.77.

I am now not very distant from 1.3.77, and at least one problem seems
to be the new code in afs_pioctl.c for get and set tokens along with
the huge ticket size introduced for compatibilty with active directory.
Keeping the old ticket size and the old code for tokens in afs_pioctl.c
results in a fairly stable client. At least I can get a token, make 
clean in the openafs-tree and make dest without crashing the system.
This is certainly not enough testing for putting it into production,
but a hint where the problem may be hidden.

Hartmut


Michael Niksch wrote:
>  > I have compiled 1.3.77 under AIX 5.1 and see the same problem. In my
>  > case the machine crashes after getting a token. It seems to work
>  > before.
> 
> I am seeing that same problem with 1.3.77 on all AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.1, and 
> AIX 5.2, both 32 and 64 bit kernel. In contrast to previous versions of 
> 1.3, I can at least load the kernel extensions now. Obtaining a token 
> with 1.3.77 'klog' from a kaserver causes a core dump, and trying to use 
> a token obtained with 1.2.10 'klog' results in a system crash.
> 
> Yes, I understand that 'klog' and 'kaserver' are considered more or less 
> deprecated, and we are in fact planning to change to a Kerberos 5 setup, 
> but this migration will take us quite some time to complete. Also, we 
> will need continued interoperability with legacy IBM Transarc AFS cells 
> for quite some time to come. So it would be great if 'kaserver' support 
> wasn't silently dropped out of OpenAFS already at this point.
> 
> So far, I haven't been able to compile ANY version of OpenAFS client to 
> work on AIX 5. The server code might be less problematic as it doesn't 
> involve kernel extensions, but I am also still running 1.2.11 server 
> binaries compiled on AIX 4.3.3 on my AIX 5.2 servers.
> 


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