[OpenAFS] Getting debugging info for afsd on a 2.6.8.1 kernel.

[Ken Aaker]

I've just started putting 1.3.71 up on some Linux machines and I was 
wondering how to collect debugging information for a client hang? I've 
tried running afsd with -debug, but after the daemons are forked and go 
to background processes, I haven't been able to find any more output.

I've built the 1.3.71 code against a SuSE 9.1 kernel which is a 2.6.5 
with a couple of patches, and it works just fine.

But the code that I built on a Fedora Core 2 system with a 2.6.8.1 
kernel will hang when I do the first write to any volume. (I just do a 
touch foo).  The system is still alive, only the afsd's are stuck. The 
afsd background processes are all in a wait state, either labeled afs_os 
or a hex wait channel. The system is running a 2.6.8.1 FC 2 stock 
uniprocessor kernel, a Xeon 2GHz. I run a RHEL3 system on the same 
system and cache partition and that works fine. I'll try to collect any 
more information, once I know where to get it.

Ken


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