[OpenAFS-devel] pr_Initialize falis when called within a simple application

[John Hayes]

There is an addendum to my initial reply to this message -

I have compiled and installed the openafs-1.2.11 package. The the tools
appear to work fo client services to our campus openafs server and they
are using the same configuration services in question for my test process.

John Hayes


> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, John Hayes wrote:
>
>> I have recemtly begun working on an application that must use the
>> openafs
>> libraries. I am trying to put to gether a very simple test fixture to
>> begin experimenting with the concept.
>>
>> When I call pr_Initialize it fails with the following error message:
>> jhh@jhh:~/work/projects/afs_support> ./afstest jhh "};)-8" test test
>> libprot: Could not locate cell msu.edu in /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
>> 70354689
>
> translate_et 70354689
> 70354689 (acfg).1 = could not find entry
>
> That would be AFSCONF_NOTFOUND
>
> pr_Initialize calls:
>          code = afsconf_GetCellInfo(tdir, cell, "afsprot", &info);
>          if (code) {
>              fprintf(stderr, "libprot: Could not locate cell %s in
> %s/%s\n",
>                      cell, confDir, AFSDIR_CELLSERVDB_FILE);
>              return code;
>          }
>
> The only thing interesting here is "afsprot", which in GetCellInfo
> triggers:
>          if (aservice) {
>              tservice = afsconf_FindService(aservice);
>              if (tservice < 0) {
>                  UNLOCK_GLOBAL_MUTEX return AFSCONF_NOTFOUND;    /*
> service
> not found */
>              }
>
>
> But in our serviceTable we have:
>      {"afsprot", 7002,},
>
> So I assume afsconf_Open somehow fails or fails to parse CellServDB: is it
> readable to the user you're running this as? Can you point us at a literal
> copy of the file? (like, cp it somewhere)
>
>
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