[OpenAFS-devel] Mac OS X 10.4.6 and OpenAFS server issues

[Jon Allen Boone]

On May 31, 2006, at 15:06, Thomas Kula wrote:

> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:45:14PM -0400, Jon Allen Boone wrote:
>>   I've tried compiling the 1.4.1 release code out of CVS and using
>> it to set up a server on my Mac running Mac OS 10.4.6.  I keep
>> getting kernel panic / hanging issues when the /vicea and /viceb
>> partitions are mounted and then openafs tries to start.
>>
>>   I have two questions:
>>
>>   1.  How do I get a better idea of where in the process the panic/
>> hang is happening?
>>
>>   2.  Is it really necessary for /vice[a,b] to be separate
>> partitions?  Spotlight and some other proccess (diskarbitrationd?
>> Finder?) keep adding .files to the partitions, which I'm guessing is
>> playing a part in the problem.
>>
>
>
> For my talk at the Best Practices Workshop[1] I've been running the
> server on OS X Server 10.4.6 and haven't had any panics or hangs.

   Is this PPC or Intel?

> I started out by making symlinks from /vicep* -> /Volumes/vicep*
> and then touching /Volumes/vicep*/AlwaysAttach, but lately I've been
> making OS X think it should mount volumes where they should be and
> not using the symlinks. I'm not sure if this is necessary, but it
> makes me feel better so I do it. I didn't think about turning off
> Spotlight until you mentioned it, but I did figure out how to do
> that on my laptop last night and so will probably do so for the talk.

   Do your vice* partitions have the .Trash files, etc.?

--jon