[OpenAFS] rh9 + openafs 1.2.10

[David Thompson]

>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), an
>d
>> 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.

Thanks for the replies on this.  It appears to be a combination of a bad rh9 
glibc (2.3.2-27.9.6 appears to have had some bad threading code in it, and has 
been replaced by 2.3.2-27.9.7) and an unrelated problem with some old ide 
drivers on other systems.

I'll go back to lurking now...

Dave