[OpenAFS] text file busy: ?! Help!!!!!

[Erik Danielsson]

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Hi,
I have had similar problems on mandrake 7.2/8.
The solution was to use a NON Mandrake kernel.

Paolo Saggese wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> sorry for boring you again, but I'm in big trouble... here is the story.
> 
> I'm running Linux Mandrake 8.0, with kernel 2.4.5-5mdk (from MandrakeFreq).
> 
> I have downloaded the OpenAFS src.rpm for RH71, which I belive is the closer
> match to my ditro... I have also downloaded and installed the needed krb rpm
> packages (from RH71, too):
> 
> [pcsaggese /users/saggese]% rpm -qva | grep krb
> krbafs-1.0.5-1
> krbafs-utils-1.0.5-1
> krb5-libs-1.2.2-5
> pam_krb5-1.31-1
> krb5-devel-1.2.2-4
> krb5-workstation-1.2.2-5
> 
> I successfully rebuilt the OpenAFS src.rpm, and installed the following
> binary packages:
> 
> openafs-client-1.0.4-24.2
> openafs-kernel-1.1.1-24.1
> openafs-1.1.1-24.1
> 
> I have configured /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell and the pam.d stuff, then I started
> afs running "/etc/init.dafs start".
> 
> OK, up to this point everything seemed to be fine: I can log in and do get
> the token, I can see my files on AFS, I can open them... but, as soon as I
> tryed to modify one of them, I discovered I couldn't do it!!! ( :-O  :-/
> 
> Here is an example of what happen:
> 
> % tokens
> 
> Tokens held by the Cache Manager:
> 
> User's (AFS ID 250) tokens for afs@lngs.infn.it [Expires Jul 24 21:01]
>    --End of list--
> % fs la
> Access list for . is
> Normal rights:
>   system:administrators rlidwka
>   saggese rlidwka
> % touch pippo

> % ls pippo
> pippo
> % ls > pippo
> zsh: file exists: pippo
> % rm pippo
> rm: remove `pippo'? y
> % ls > pippo
> zsh: text file busy: pippo
> % cp /tmp/openafs-1.1.1-24.1.src.rpm .
> cp: cannot create regular file `./openafs-1.1.1-24.1.src.rpm': Text file busy
> %
> 
> As you can see, the token is there, and the permission are as usual... I can
> create an empty file with "touch", remove an existing file with "rm", but can
> not add a non-empty file or change an existing file either!  ( :-O  :-/  :-?
> 
> At this point I'm clueless... any idea of what can be the source of this
> strange problem?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance...
> 
> Ciao,
>                                 Paolo.
> 
> --
> http://borex.lngs.infn.it/saggese
> You can still escape from the GATES of hell: Use Linux!
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