[OpenAFS-devel] malloc failed to alloc enough memory translating ids

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Scott J Baker wrote:

> I'm trying to use openafs on AIX 4.3.3 (ml9).  It compiled just fine, and
> in fact runs great for the most part.  However, anytime an afs app tries
> convert a username to a user id # i get this:

can you try the binaries we distribute? if you don't have this problem,
it's probably going to be a compiler problem, which i think was discussed
here about 2.5 months ago

> bash-2.05a# /usr/afs/bin/pts examine <username>
> /usr/afs/bin/pts: malloc failed to alloc enough memory translating ids
> 
> If I do the same command with the UID instead of the username, i get this:
> bash-2.05a# /usr/afs/bin/pts examine <that same user's id#>
> Name: <username>, id: <user id number>, owner: system:administrators,
> creator: admin,
>   membership: 0, flags: S----, group quota: 20.
> 
> This seems to be causing problems with enabling afs tokens on login too (as
> i assume that would have to convert usernames to UID's too).  Any clue what
> could be causing this?  I've tried the 4.3.3 binaries from www.openafs.org
> with the same error as compiling from source.
> 
> Btw, a windows client can connect just fine to this server (not automatic
> on login right now, but i haven't actually tried), and klog <username>
> works to get tokens from the AIX machine.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott Baker
> sjbaker@us.ibm.com
> 
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