[OpenAFS-devel] Problems with 1.4.8pre2 on Fedora 8

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Marc Dionne wrote:
> So I managed to reproduce this here, and after much instrumenting and
> tracing, I think that the problem is that the "areq" structure is not
> always properly initialized in afs_Conn() when we test, among other
> things, for skipserver = 1.  In fact about 20% of the time, skipserver and 
> other fields (idleError, tokenError) look completely bogus.
>
> According to comments in the code, areq->initd should be 1 for most of the 
> fields in that structure to be meaningful; traces show that when initd is 1, 
> the fields are indeed properly initialized.
>
> Attached patch checks for initrd==1 before relying on skipserver - fixes the 
> problem for me - could you guys give it a try?

It's only been one hour so far but OpenAFS-1.4.8pre2 with your patch
seems to work on my Fedora 8 machine!

Many thanks,
                   Alf.

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