[OpenAFS] /afs suddenly not mounted?

[Derek Atkins]

What version of OpenAFS are you using?
Are you using the pre-built RPMs or did you compile from source?

-derek

Erik Arneson <erik@aarg.net> writes:

> I've been trying to get OpenAFS running on two different RedHat 7.3
> systems, and both times I've been going along with the configuration
> outlined in the QuickStartUnix guide when suddenly afsd would stop doing
> anything.  I wouldn't be able to get at anything under the /afs
> directory, even though 'mount' would show it was mounted with type
> 'AFS'.
> 
> I've also been getting kernel oops'es.  Here's my 'uname -a' output.
> I'm using RedHat kernel packages.
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux sif 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> And here's the dump from the kernel:
> 
>   <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f8a605e1
>   printing eip:
>  f8a605e1
>  *pde = 01cfc067
>  *pte = 00000000
>  Oops: 0000
>  nfsd autofs nfs lockd sunrpc eepro100 ipchains ide-scsi scsi_mod ide-cd cdrom 
>  CPU:    0
>  EIP:    0010:[<f8a605e1>]    Tainted: PF
>  EFLAGS: 00010282
>  
>  EIP is at __insmod_nfsd_S.bss_L1760 [nfsd] 0x41321 (2.4.18-3)
>  eax: 00000000   ebx: d9afe000   ecx: d9affb88   edx: 00000000
>  esi: dde8c7c0   edi: d9affbe4   ebp: f8a88cd4   esp: d9affbb4
>  ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
>  Process afsd (pid: 1545, stackpage=d9aff000)
>  Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000725 00000000 00000000 d9afe000 00000000 00000000 
>         00000000 d9afe000 d4bf7c0c d9bfdc0c d9affc00 00000000 00000000 3d7e8deb 
>         f8a88dfc 0000476d 00000000 f8a60309 f8a88cd4 0000476d 00000000 d9afe000 
>  Call Trace: [<c01275ea>] do_wp_page [kernel] 0x5a 
>  [<c0127f76>] handle_mm_fault [kernel] 0x106 
>  [<c0115a8a>] do_page_fault [kernel] 0x12a 
>  [<c0108913>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 
>  
>  
>  Code:  Bad EIP value.
> 
> There seemed to be no way to kill afsd or unload the afs module to try
> again.  Any pointers would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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