[OpenAFS] Problems with OpenAFS 1.3.79 and Kernel 2.11.5

[Björn Ruberg]

Hello,

I have to integrate Gentoo-Linux-PCs in an existing AFS cell.
I did the great mistake to believe, that I can handle it to get afs working on 
kernel 2.6.
Switching back to 2.4 is not that easy, so I hope somebody can help me.

I installed OpenAFS 1.3.79 as 1.3.80 didn't compile on the system.
At the first look it worked and I was able to use afs together with kernel 
2.6.11.
The first problem appeared, but it seemed acceptable.

Problem 1: AFS breaks shutdown. Unmounting the caching-Partition 
on /usr/vice/cache always fails. Moreover the libafs-module is not unload 
able. I cannot kill the afs processes.

After using AFS on that machines I discoverd, that it is not working stable.
Problem 2: When I try to copy several hundreds of KBs onto the server, it just 
stops and the process can only be killed by force. When that happens the 
first time, I can still read from the AFS server. But after some minutes even 
that just freezes and AFS just works again after reboot.
It's not just AFS, the affected user is not able to write on the harddisk 
anymore.

Both problems occur with OpenAFS 1.3.79 and 1.3.81.
Problem 3: OpenAFS 1.3.81 compiles fine, but it breaks the system. All the 
time the system complines about a missing libary libafs_pam.so.1 .
I don't know how to solve that either.

So please, before really begin to hate AFS help me.

Thanks :)