[OpenAFS-devel] Testing (and a call for volunteers)

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 09/19/2012 08:46 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:37:02 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
>
>> % grep 127 /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1    localhost
>> 127.0.1.1    jason-laptop
>>
> In other words, 'yes'.   The machine is misconfigured for running
> OpenAFS servers.
> OpenAFS does not support local hostname resolution to loopback
> addresses.
>
> Jason, you might volunteer to submit an test for this condition and
> generate a
> warning at the beginning of 'make check' and then skip all of the
> server tests.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
I've pushed Gerrit changes 8145 and 8146 to check for a hostname with a 
loopback address and skip the vos tests if the true. Derrick helped me 
work out some compilation issues.

http://gerrit.openafs.org/8145
http://gerrit.openafs.org/8146

Jason