[OpenAFS] segmentation fault when writing to cells

[Derek Atkins]

You don't say what version of OpenAFS you installed.

Also, IIRC, there were problems with the Mandrake kernel, where
they included patches that caused a source-level incompatibility.
Although that may have only been SuSE, I'm not sure.

-derek

=?iso-8859-1?q?colin=20ellis?= <live4linux@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> I am trying to set up openafs on Mandrake 7.2 (linux
> kernel 2.2.17-secure).  I installed from source rpm
> and followed the rules set out in the ibm
> quick-beginnings documentation.
> 
> I have managed to get volumes set up on a server for :
> /afs/<cell>/i386_linux22
> /afs/<cell>/i386_linux22/usr
> /afs/<cell>/i386_linux22/usr/afsws
> 
> and the corresponding replications such that I write
> to /afs/.<cell>/i386_linux22 etc.
> 
> When performing the steps explained in the afs manual,
> page 74 to copy the binaries from the "cdrom" to the
> /afs/.cellname/sysname/usr/afsws/bin directory I come
> into trouble.
> 
> I can only guess from the directory structure of the
> rpm BUILD directory that I should be copying the
> i386_linux22/dest/bin directory.  
> 
> I tried copying these files and received a
> segmentation fault.  I tried also creating a simple
> text file and copying it, and also received a
> segmentation fault.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?
> 
> Is there going to be a document released soon for
> *openafs* that correctly describes the installation
> procedure?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Colin Ellis
> 
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