[OpenAFS] Debian install problem: ptserver won't start

[Sergio Gelato]

* Lars Schimmer [2005-04-20 10:10:08 +0200]:
> Scott Fritzinger schrieb:
> | All,
> |
> | I'm having a "bang your head against a wall" problem when installing
> | OpenAFS on Debian from the Debian repository.
> 
> First - which one? I strongly suggest the experimental sources and version
> 1.3.81 of OpenAFS.

Very good question. In particular, Debian stable ("woody", 3.0r5) still 
ships with OpenAFS 1.2.3 packages which you most definitely should not use. 
Get the 1.2.13 packages from openafs.org if you're using woody.

> And to your problem - if the server is multihomed, try the netrestrict 
> file, in
> which all IPs are listed that OpenAFS shouldn't listen to. More info on the
> www.openafs.org website documentation. In Debian that file should rest in
> /etc/openafs/server-local/NetRestrict.

Or in /var/lib/openafs, depending on which build of the .deb's you are using.
I agree that NetRestrict can be desirable for a multihomed server, but I don't
think it's the main issue here. Things ought to work, if a little less
efficiently, without any explicit NetRestrict configuration.