[OpenAFS] Bug and segmentation faults

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:02:56 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Michael Robokoff wrote:

> We were having a problem with segmentation faults when we tried to
> execute or edit files that were located in AFS space. The problem was
> only occuring on our afs server that is an intel machne running RedHat
> 7.2 and openafs-1.2.2. One of our programmers found a bug that he
> described as AFS not initializing the inodes correctly and is only
> affected currently by the 2.4.9-13 kernel. It sounds like someone is
> aware of this already. If you want our changes let me know and I will
> try and get them.

They should be in current CVS and will be in the 1.2.3 release. 

> Having  7 afs servers it would really help us to see this fixed.

It should affect clients rather than servers. If your servers are also
clients, sure.

-D