[OpenAFS] Problems with 1.3.61 in Windows 2000

[James Burns]

I'll install the debug version when I get home and let you know what 
happens. Luckily it doesn't happen in safe mode or else I'd have been in a 
bit of a harder place.

-James

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Fact: the afslogon.dll is loaded by winlogin.exe whenever the 
> "TransarcAFSDaemon"
> is listed within 
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\ProviderOrder "Order".
> This is true whether or not Integrated Logon is being used.
> 
> Fact: the afslogon.dll has not been touched by anyone since the 1.2.8 
> distribution
> 
> Fact: the 1.3.50  and higher versions of OpenAFS are compiled using the 
> VS.NET 2003
> compiler including the buffer overrun detection option.  The 1.2.x 
> versions were compiled
> with the VC++ 6.0 compiler which did not have buffer overrun detection.
> 
> Hypothesis: There are buffer overruns taking place within afslogon.dll 
> which have always
> been there and which are only triggered in some environments.  However, 
> previously
> they were never caught.  Now when they are caught an exception is thrown 
> which is
> causing winlogin.exe to halt. 
> 
> Please install the DEBUG version of the installer from 
> http://web.mit.edu/~jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/
> and get me a crash log.  Hopefully this will point out the cause of the 
> problem.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman
> 
> 
> 
> Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> 
> >
> >James Burns wrote:
> >
> >>I tried installing the latest version to see if any of the changes
> >>affected the problems I was previously posting about here. Instead upon
> >>reboot I was greeted by a Visual C++ runtime buffer overflow and
> >>subsequent crash of winlogin.exe. This of course leads to a reboot of the
> >>machine. I did not have integrated login enabled, but do have a UareU
> >>fingerprint alternate login device. 
> >>
> >
> >It may be UareU as they replace the GINA with their own! I had one of these
> >installed last week wit version 3.0.0, but uninstalled it to let someone else
> >try it. I will have to see if he has the problem as he installed 1.3.60.
> >(Sundays version)
> >
> >But while I have the UareU installed I did not have any problems with AFS,
> >but I was not using integrated AFS login either.
> > 
> >
> >
> >>This problem did not exist in 1.3.59
> >>(which simply didn't start as noted previously). When I restarted in safe
> >>mode, after logging in there was a dialogue about how the AFS Client
> >>didn't start. Uninstalling OpenAFS fixed the crash during normal login.
> >>Something seems to be pretty broken.
> >>
> >>-James
> >>
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