[OpenAFS-devel] Kernel panic with openafs 1.4.0

[Harald Barth]

> Today I've encountered the following kernel panic with openafs 1.4.0 on 
> a Scientific Linux 4 system (RedHat Enterprise 4 compatible). Will this 
> be fixed in 1.4.2?

That's a bit difficult to tell before we know why it broke.
I have not seen this particular bug before, someone else
might.

Let me see... We are in afs_NewVCache() and call osi_Panic(). 
Unfortunately osi_Panic() did not write the message string,
but only called BUG(). (Can we fix that for the future?)
Normally afs_NewVCache() works, so why did it not work for
you here? 

So the standard questions are:

What file system is your cache partition?
Size of you cache partition?
Number if inodes?
Configured size of your AFS cache?
Options to afsd?
I guess your kernel is 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp-MP equivalent to RH, is that correct?
When did this happen? At startup? Later?
Any hint on what file operations were going on at the time?
Can you repeat it?

Harald.