[OpenAFS] "Value too large for defined data type"

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Charles Clancy wrote:

> > > So, a file from my thesis has suddenly stopped being accessable.  I last
> > > accessed it from a WinXP machine running OpenAFS 1.2.6.  Now, I'm trying
> > > to access it from my Solaris 8 client/server running 1.2.6 and getting
> > > "Value too large for defined data type".  I can still access the file just
> > > fine from Windows.
> >
> > I think this is fixed in 1.2.7; It's a problem with the date being
> > negative, maybe. Touch the file from somewhere to update the timestamp and
> > it should then be ok.
>
> At the moment, I only have a Windows client and a Solaris client.
> Accessing the file from Windows doesn't help the situation, and I can't
> touch the file from Solaris without getting the same error.  As long as
> it's been fixed in 1.2.7, that's fine with me.  I've sftp'd the file
> around and gotten things going again.
>
> Interestingly enough, two PowerPoint presentations I saved in AFS space
> from the XP client are perfectly readable under Solaris.
>
> Was it a Solaris bug, a Windows bug, or a general bug?

The bug in Windows was setting the bad value, and the bug in Solaris
(maybe on 64 bit Solaris only) was dealing with the bad time poorly.