[OpenAFS] "lost contact" after debian upgrade

[Derek Atkins]

Did the upgrade, perhaps, install a firewall?

-derek

Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <6delgado@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

> Hiho!
> 
> After a debian upgrade at home (with several difficulties which do not
> concern OpenAFS directly but the debian package) i found myself with
> OpenAFS 1.2.7 and -- after recompiling the kernel module and fixing
> the problems with the debian package -- the following problem:
> 
> Nov 12 22:08:57 ------- kernel: afs: Lost contact with file server
> ---.---.-.- in cell ------.---.-- (all multi-homed ip addresses down
> for the server)
> 
> The message appears on the machine which is the main client (though
> not the only one) *and* fileserver and dbserver.
> 
> After 'fs checks' the fileserver is immediately "back up".
> 
> There should not be a network problem, since everything is on the
> local host, right?
> 
> It seems to appear frequently after i just booted the system and then
> log into gnome (i.e. a lot of load and disk activity). And sometimes
> it appears during normal work.
> 
> I use a 2.4.19 kernel with low latency and preemption patches, which
> has worked reliably with OpenAFS 1.2.6. (well maybe OpenAFS 1.2.7 has
> a problem with these patches i don't know of).
> 
> The machines at work (with SuSE 8.0, kernel 2.4.18 with SuSE patches
> and OpenAFS 1.2.7) have no problems.
> 
> The CellServDB and other settings have not been touched by the debian
> package scripts.
> 
> Sorry for the lack of information. I honestly don't know where to
> look.
> 
> Kind regards and thanks in advance
> Friedel
> -- 
> 	Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
> Laziness led to the invention of the most useful tools.

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