[OpenAFS] AFS client hangs indefinitely following backup

[Charles Karney]

 > From: shadow@dementia.org (Derrick J Brashear)
 > Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:43:02 -0400 (EDT)
 > 
 > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Charles Karney wrote:
 > 
 > > We have encountered problems with our clients hanging on AFS accesses.
 > > Yesterday I think I engineering a more-or-less reproducible set of
 > > circumstance to reproduce this.
 > 
 > I'll guess it's the same problem the person with the SuSe 9 machine
 > complained of, notably that nptl and the fileserver are feuding.
 > 
 > Standard answers apply:
 > try LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1, or failing that, try the LWP fileserver from
 > src/viced/fileserver.

I restarted all our AFS servers with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 and this
appears to have fixed our problem.

Thanks for the help!

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