[OpenAFS] Please help me again for my installation of afs!

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:12:20 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Dong Fangpeng wrote:

> Hello,
> I met some problems during my installing of my first AFS machine in Linux. 
> 
> 1. When I input "./bosserver -noauth &" ,the following prompt displayed: 
> 
> "/usr/afs/bin/buserver:problems with host Ubik init failed". 

does your hostname appear in /etc/hosts in the 127.0.0.1 line? if so,
remove it. make sure the hostname of the machine returned by the hostname
command has a useful (non-loopback) IP address.