[OpenAFS] rh9 + openafs 1.2.10

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, David Thompson wrote:

>
> We're trying to deploy Red Hat 9.  I'm running kernel 2.4.20-20.9, openafs
> 1.2.10 (_not_ Derek's RPMs - our own build from the openafs.org sources), and
> I'm running into some strange failure modes.  What I'm seeing is random
> processes hanging in the kernel (and never coming back), and/or unreasonably
> long times reading data out of /afs.  It's not deterministic; I can run some
> random program many times, and then once in a while it hangs in the kernel,
> and all I can do is 'kill -9' the process.

That you can kill -9 the process suggests at least it's not oopsing, at
least.

Can you get anything useful out of fstrace that might show what's going
on?

How about magic-sysrq backtraces?