[OpenAFS] AFS Client for Win NT, Error 0x0000042A

[Daniel Clark]

This problem has been mentioned in openafs-info and forus.software.afs:

After initial install of AFS on Windows, the following error message appears:
The AFS Client Service could not be started successfully. You might not
have authorization to perform this operation. Error 0x0000042A.

I opened PMR 07547 Branch 469 against this issue; below is the Analysis
from IBM/Transarc. There are (IBM AFS) binaries available with the fix at
ftp://ftp.transarc.ibm.com/pub/afsps/ftp/kubis/i386_nt40_30992.zip

ANALYSIS DONE : Through the debugger, Development searched out
the reason for the failure. The failure point was in a assert statement in which

pthread_once function was being asserted. The system was loading a
wrong copy of pthread.dll from c:\winnt\system32 rather than the
one that comes with AFS. This problem is similar to another PMR that
had been reported prior from another customer for which a fix has already
been made. We renamed the pthread.dll to afspthread.dll to avoid this problem.

Hopefully this is enough information for the problem to be fixed in OpenAFS as
well.

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Daniel Clark - Sys Admin & Assistant Release Engineer
IBM > Lotus > Messaging Technology Group (MTG)