[OpenAFS] OpenAFS hangs Finder on MacOS X 10.1 when AFS server vanishes?

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
04 Jan 2002 15:28:00 -0500


Don't expand /afs in the finder.

-derek

"Samuel L. Bayer" <sam@mitre.org> writes:

> All -
> 
> I've been having a problem with OpenAFS on MacOS X 10.1, and I can't
> find any mention of it on the mailing list yet. Occasionally, the
> Finder will hang; I'll get the beachball forever and I won't be able
> to start other applications, and if I try to telnet in, I never get a
> prompt. In /var/log/system.log, I find messages like the following
> (sanitized) at times suspiciously close to the times the Finder hangs:
> 
> Jan  4 14:24:27 foo mach_kernel: afs: Lost contact with volume
> location server a.b.c.d in cell bar
> 
> My only recourse at these times is to restart, since I can't manage to
> get my machine to respond in any way that would allow me to kill
> enough processes to proceed. Even when the relevant server returns to
> the land of the living, the Mac doesn't recover. 
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this behavior? Does anyone have any
> suggestions? Is this a bug?
> 
> Thanks in advance -
> Sam Bayer
> The MITRE Corporation
> sam@mitre.org
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