[OpenAFS] OpenAFS-Client crashes AIX 5.1

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Jan 18, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Hans-Gunther Borrmann wrote:
>
> After the installation of this version on my test machine I started the
> client, got a token and tard my AFS home directory to /dev/null. After 
> some
> time the system crashed. Crash information follows:
>



> SYSTEM STATUS:
> sysname... AIX
> nodename.. ibm1
> release... 1
> version... 5
> machine... 00415FAC4C00
> nid....... 415FAC4C
> time of crash: Tue Jan 18 10:53:57 2005
> age of system: 14 min., 41 sec.
> xmalloc debug: disabled
>
> CRASH INFORMATION:
> CPU 0 CSA 2FF3B400 at time of crash, error code for LEDs: 30000000
> pvthread+004700 STACK:
> [05B53F2C]afs_RemoveVCB+0000C8 (69746572 [??])
> [05B4A328]afs_GetDCache+001774 (33CF1720, 00000000, 00000000, 2FF3B188,
>    2FF3B178, 2FF3B180, 00000001)
> [05B8464C]BPrefetch+00008C (05BD2D68)
> [05B84E98]afs_BackgroundDaemon+0002A8 ()
> [05B2B390]afs_syscall_call+000238 (00000002, 00000000, 2FF22FFC, 
> 0000D0B2,
>    00000000, 60000000)
> [05B2AE94]syscall+0000A0 (0000001C, 00000002, 00000000, 2FF22FFC,
>    0000D0B2, 00000000, 60000000)
> [00003A50].sys_call+000000 ()
>
>

This is IMHO not the same problem. It doesn't look like a kernel 
allocation problem to me.
BTW,  can you start your client with -nosettime. I had some problems 
with that in the past, and never got the time to look deeper into it.
Maybe it doesn't help but it doesn't hurt either.

Horst