[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.
> 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.
>
> My vicep partitions are formatted UFS. And I've been running the
> release 1.4.1 --- all the server stuff is in /Library/OpenAFS/
> Tools/root.server/
>
> My test hardware is pretty gimpy, relatively speaking, so I havne't
> done much but rudimentary tests. It seems to be stable, however,
> so I'm probably of no help with it panicing/hanging.
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw06/

   I switched to using an Intel Mac Mini and got the server up and  
running last night, working, in part, from your presentation at the  
Best Practices Workshop and, in part, from the OpenAFS for Mac OS X  
document written by  Jean-Matthieu Schaffhauser in 2003.

   By the way, the answers to your questions regarding Finder, etc. are:

   1.  mount /vicepa as /vicepa - edit /etc/fstab as follows:

       UUID=<UUID of partition here>	/vicepa		ufs	rw

   2.  make /vicepa invisible to Finder:

	/Developer/Tools/bin/SetFile -a V /vicepa

       (You either have to relaunch the finder or logout/login again  
to see the effect.)

   3.  Spotlight indexing trick - you already had it.  :-)

   By the way, I am not using OS X Server for this, just regular OS  
X.  This means I have to rely on the OpenAFS KAS and some additional  
scripts to handle "single sign-on".

--jon