[OpenAFS] AIX client panics machine if ThisCell is invalid

Ben Staffin staffin@uiuc.edu
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:29:39 -0600


So ... I discovered the hard way that (on AIX at least) if you put a
non-existent cellname in /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell and start the AFS
client, the system will panic as soon as afsd is started.  Weird, huh?
Pretty obscure error condition, but still ... kernel panic?  Yow.

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