[OpenAFS] "unable to authenticate to AFS" error- linux distribution specific?

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Nov 17, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Thomas Bertram wrote:

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>> On Nov 3, 2004, at 10:51 AM, Marco Spatz wrote:
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>>> / Hi,
>> />/
>> />/ I'm trying to set up my primary afs server using SuSE 9.2. 
>> Everything />/ went fine (creating the server processes, setting up 
>> security, />/ creating root volume). I have restarted my system to 
>> get into />/ auth-mode, but everytime I try to get a token by klog 
>> admin and />/ entering the correct password I get the following error 
>> message />/ "Unable to authenticate to AFS because AuthServer 
>> returned incorrect />/ response.". //
>> /
>>
>> Actually, I don't know about the packaging system of SuSE but there 
>> was a change in the ticket size so if you're running some sort of odd 
>> combination (old kaserver new client or the other way around, I don't 
>> remember exactly) you will get that error.
>>
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>>
> Here is a similar problem: I want to get an AFS client working under 
> SuSE 9.2. Klog with the client provided by SuSE returns
>
> /"Unable to authenticate to AFS because AuthServer returned incorrect 
> //response."
> /
>
> Then I compiled and installed first AFS 1.3.74 and then 1.3.71. Same 
> result. The server I want to connect to is  a somewhat older release 
> and I don't have access to update it.
> Under SuSE 9.1 (2.6 Kernel) I encountered the same problem. However, 
> on two installations with SuSE 9.0 with an own compiled 2.6.7 kernel 
> and a compiled AFS 1.3.71 client,  klog is working properly -- also 
> with the same old server.
>
> Could there be an influence of the compiler version or the libc 
> version or any other linux-distribution specific influence causing 
> that problem? Any ideas how to solve that problem?

A few guys were reporting problems with the optimization turned on for 
compilation of the des library on SuSE. (I only had that kind of 
trouble on AIX) Maybe it's a combination of compiler and kernel. I 
don't know.

Try to switch off optimization ... Just a thought.

Horst