[OpenAFS] Problems with OpenAFS 1.3.79 and Kernel 2.11.5

Jason McCormick jasonmc@cert.org
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:39:20 -0400


--On Sunday, April 24, 2005 11:03:09 AM +0200 Bj=F6rn Ruberg
<bjoern@ruberg-wegener.de> wrote:

>> For problem 2 what kernel are you running?  Are you running the Gentoo
>> Sources or a plain vanilla kernel.  I've always had problems running
>> gentoo sources with Open AFS, even with the 2.4 kernel.
>=20
> Yes, I run the Gentoo-Sources. I always found them very good and I don't
> want  to switch to vanilla if I can avoid it.
> I can take out some of the patches out of the Gentoo-Sources, when I
> know,=20

Are you compiling your kernel with the preemptable stuff enabled?  This
seems to cause lockup problems with AFS.   Try compiling your kernel w/o
PREEMPT.

--=20
Jason McCormick <jasonmc@cert.org>
CERT Infrastructure Team