[OpenAFS] setpag: Invalid argument

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, John Tang Boyland wrote:

> I'm using OpenAFS 1.2.10 on Solaris 8.  A strange thing had been happening:
> pagsh didn't work anymore.  I had a long-going console login (with a PAG)
> and within it, a shell that was running a pagsh with a different pag,
> but I wasn't able to start up new pagsh's, I got the message:
> 	setpag: Invalid argument
> and no PAG is created.  I tried rebooting, but then I couldn't get any
> PAGs at all.
>
> But with some experimentation, I found out what was happening: my
> username was in too many UNIX groups: 15.  When I cut the number of
> groups down to 11, the problem went away, and I was able to get a PAG.
> I found:
> /usr/include/limits.h:#define   NGROUPS_MAX     16
> That explains it.  Should this setpag behavior be documented somewhere?

Probably. The question is, where?

Perhaps the fledgling documentation effort should have an RT queue where 
stuff like this should go? I'm not volunteering them for it, but it's a 
thought.