[OpenAFS] Help - Failed to load AFS client

[Tommy Mann]

> > just to be
> > clear, are you saying that since ThisCell contained 'openafs.org', and
> > since I couldn't contact 'openafs.org',
> Since I don't think you rebooted since putting openafs.org into ThisCell, I 
> don't know if openafs.org is the cell you cannot contact or not. Are there 
> any more "lost contact with..." messages? In any event there is some cell 
> that you cannot contact.

I haven't yet rebooted (I will reboot around 4pm US East Coast), but now 
that I have openafs.org in ThisCell I don't see anymore "lost contact 
with..." messages.  I'm guessing that's because afs isn't running?

> > and because I didn't run afsd
> > with  -fakeroot, then I can't shut it down?
> > Is there anyway to get around this  at this point?
> no
> 
> > And is there a cell that I can definitely
> > connect with to  test that it's working after I restart afs?
> The openafs.org cell is just fine.
> 
> You can test a cell for reachability before starting afs using the vos 
> command (which is probably installed in /usr/sbin). This assumes that your 
> CellServDB is intact, and probably requires your ThisCell file to have some 
> valid cell in it, but it doesn't matter which one:
> 
> vos examine root.afs -noauth -cell <cell.name>

Tried this 'vos examine root.afs -noauth -cell openafs.org' (note: I have 
left ThisCell and CellServDB as the default install contents) and it hung 
indefinitely -- I had to stop the process myself after a few minutes.

> if it succeeds, and the requested cell is working, it will print a bunch of 
> output (at least 10 lines worth)
> If it just prints an error message or hangs for more than 30 seconds or so, 
> then the cell is down or otherwise inaccessible to your machine.
> 
> For what it's worth, once I constructed a cellservdb entry for it, I was 
> able to access the isis.unc.edu cell, so it's also fine.
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