[OpenAFS] Help - Failed to load AFS client

[Derek Atkins]

Tommy Mann <tmann@black.ils.unc.edu> writes:

> I don't think I have a firewall, but I'll have to check to make sure -- 
> I'm not the only one with root access on this box.  Anyway, I rebooted and 
> while it was rebooting I saw "lost contact with openafs.org" message 
> scroll by about a donzen times before saying something like "Can't mount 
> on afs(22)".
> 
> I looks, though, that AFS started up correctly after the reboot:

Just because these processes are running does _NOT_ mean that "AFS
started up correctly".  In fact, from the errors you get above I would
conclude that AFS is definitely _NOT_ running.

> [tmann@black tmann]$ ps -ef | grep afs
> root      1042     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afs_rxlistener]
> root      1047     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afs_callback]
> root      1049     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afs_rxevent]
> root      1050     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afsd]
> root      1051     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afs_checkserver]
> root      1052     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afs_background]
> root      1053     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afs_background]
> root      1054     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afs_background]
> root      1056     2  0 16:24 ?        00:00:00 [afs_cachetrim]
> 
> Does all of this look okay?  Should there be multiple afs_background 
> processes??

Yes, this looks ok, and yes, there should be multiple background
processes.  However, you're still not getting AFS service.

Has it _ever_ worked on this machine?

Can you check if you have any iptable or ipchain firewall rules that
may be blocking responses from the servers?

> Thanks again for all the help!
> 
> Tommy

-derek

> 
> 
> On 4 Nov 2002, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > Tommy Mann <tmann@black.ils.unc.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Well, you'll see the messages once and then you'll never see them again...
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Sounds like you might have a firewall installed.  Do you have a "personal
> > firewall" configured on your Linux box?
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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