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

[Thomas Bertram]

Christof Hanke wrote:

>I've debugged my broken klog (SLES9 on openafs-1.3.74)  using -O2 and 
>found out that in authclient.c:ka_Authenticate() the char *label gets 
>corrupted, when KAA_AuthenticateV2 is called (as Derrick pointed out 
>earlier).
>I have no fix for that, but I found out when you declare the char *label 
>as static, the klog works (at least for me).
>in src/kauth :
>diff authclient.c authclient_new.c
>526c526
><     char *ans_label;
>---
> >     static char *ans_label;
>
>What this means in detail, I do not know, but I guess it prevents some 
>overoptimization.
>

That worked out for me as well. Thanks!

Thomas