[OpenAFS] hung directory

Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
25 Oct 2002 16:34:43 +0200


>>>>> "Derrick" == Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

    Derrick> On 25 Oct 2002, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
    >> I'm running my web server (Roxen 2.1.265) in AFS space (v1.2.6
    >> with v1.2.3final2 kernel module).
    >> 
    >> Today I noticed that the web server didn't publish pages at
    >> all, so I restarted and thought that would do it (I'm doing
    >> kinit/aklog) from the init script). It didn't. When i did a
    >> 'ls' on the directory, the command hung!

    Derrick> There were bugs in the kernel module in Linux that could
    Derrick> manifest themselves as hangs; Several in fact. Is that
    Derrick> find running in AFS space?

Yes it does (did :).

    Derrick> You should really upgrade to 1.2.7.

Ok, I almost suspected that. I have everything ready, I just need to
reboot :) BUT I DON'T WANT TO !!! :)

Ah, well. I got to get the webserver up and running, so I guess I have
no choice. To bad a restart of the afsd result in kernel panic's.