1.2.9 unstable ? (was [OpenAFS] inaccessibble volume - please help)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Rudolph T Maceyko wrote:

> >> I haven't quite tracked this down yet, but we were seeing shutdown
> >> hangs in afsd when processes were still accessing /afs at shutdown
> >> time.
> >>
> >> This was under Red Hat 7.3, OpenAFS RPMs built for Red Hat's
> >> 2.4.18-27.7.x kernel.
> >
> > Can you still cmdebug the cache manager at that point? If so, does it
> > shut down at that point?
>
> I'll let you know...  I'm building a box to do some testing right now.
> We backed out 1.2.9 for Red Hat 7.3 boxes once this problem was
> discovered.  Because we autoreboot our Red Hat boxes, it frequently
> happens that folks leave processes running that are accessing AFS.  So
> the shutdown problem shows itself pretty well here...  (Older versions
> of AFS/OpenAFS used to have similar problems.)

I understand now. Look at the commentary in ticket 1409 in OpenAFS-bugs.

I don't have an answer yet.