[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS on 2.4.26 ? OpenMosix ?

[Terry Gliedt]

Miles Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:15:44AM -0500, Terry Gliedt wrote:
> 
>>I can now confirm the combination of a  2.4.26 kernel  + 1.3.73 OpenAFS 
>>works just fine. Adding OpenMosix will immediately results in this symptom:
>>
>>  SSH with X11 forwarding to OpenMosix+OpenAFS machine
>>  Observe messages about a fail in locking .Xauthority file
>>
>>What apparently is happening is that as X11 attempts to add a new entry 
>>to .Xauthority, it creates .Xauthority-n and presumably does a move 
>>which fails. This results in the user's .Xauthority "disappearing". A 
>>simple 'mv .Xauthority-n .Xauthority' allows X11 to work properly again.
>>
>>I presume this has something to do with locking, but that's just my 
>>guess. I've seen other strangeness in AFS behavior also which may be 
>>related (or not), however the ssh scenario I mention above has been my 
>>lithmus test.
> 
> 
> I've had that happen several times on 1.3.73 clients, so it probably has 
> nothing to do with openMosix. I haven't tried 1.3.74 yet, but you should 
> probably give that a try.

Well, I did, but that did not help. I really believe this is an 
interaction between OpenAFS and OpenMosix.  If I apply OpenAFS 1.3.73 to 
a pure linux 2.4.26 kernel, AFS behaves as expected. Adding OpenMosix 
definately causes the problem.  Thanks for the thought.

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