[OpenAFS] help: klog: error reading cell database

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:56:02 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Patrick Gardner wrote:

> I am running debian testing with kernel 2.4.27, and am having a problem using 
> openafs as a normal user. I have compiled and installed 
> openafs-modules-source, and installed openafs-client, libpam-openafs-session, 
> etc., and the module loads and the daemons start fine at startup. As root, I 
> can then run klog and log in to the AFS server without a problem, but as a 
> normal user, I get this error message:
>
> klog: error reading cell database Can't get local cell name!
>
> This seems to be a permissions problem, but I don't know where: I've chmoded 
> CellServDB and ThisCell in /etc/openafs but that didn't work.

strace klog and see what files it's actually trying to read?