[OpenAFS-devel] Hang creating root.afs

[John Livingston]

I've been trying to set up an AFS cell and have hit a problem I can't 
seem to get around.  It's an AMD64 system, using OpenAFS 1.3.82 and a 
2.6.8 kernel, all standard Debian testing.  Kerberos 5 has been running 
for a while, there are no issues with any of that.  /vicepa is a sparse 
file with an ext2 on it, mounted on loop.

I've basically been following the commands run by the Debian 
/usr/sbin/afs-newcell script.  I can get through using bos to add a host 
and admin, add the admin to the protection database, create the ptserver 
and vlserver, and create an fs to run the fileserver, volserver, and 
salvager.  Everything's normal up until

fermion:~# vos create fermion a root.afs -localauth

and then it hangs.  The process is still perfectly polite, it can be 
stopped, terminated, etc., it simply doesn't finish executing on its own 
or appear to do anything useful.  Running a stack trace on it shows it 
sending data over the loopback interface once every few seconds.  I ran 
tethereal on lo, and got streams of

  0.000000  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.1  RX ACK  Seq: 0  Call: 3  Source 
Port: afs3-vlserver  Destination Port: afs3-vlserver
  0.000019  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.1  RX ACK  Seq: 0  Call: 3  Source 
Port: afs3-vlserver  Destination Port: afs3-vlserver
  0.000037  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.1  RX ACK  Seq: 0  Call: 3  Source 
Port: afs3-vlserver  Destination Port: afs3-vlserver
  0.000050  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.1  RX ACK  Seq: 0  Call: 3  Source 
Port: afs3-vlserver  Destination Port: afs3-vlserver

about once every second.

I'd appreciate any ideas.  Thanks for your help, and let me know if you 
need any other information.

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John Livingston