[OpenAFS] crash on AIX 5.2

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:14:24 +0100


On Jan 11, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Hans-Gunther Borrmann wrote:

> On Friday 07 January 2005 21:39, Horst Birthelmer wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Dr. Elmar Abeln wrote:
>>> Hi all !
>>>
>>> i tryed to install Open-AFS (1.3.74)  on an AIX 5.2
>>> The Compile part worked without an error. But after loading
>>> the kernel extensions (export.ext and afs.ext.32) and starting
>>> the AFS-Daemon afsd the machine crashes.
>>
>> The Machine crashes right away or after getting a token??
>> Since you use the afs.ext.32 module it is possible that you run into
>> that old kernel allocation problem.
>>
>
> I  have compiled 1.3.77 under AIX 5.1 and see the same problem. In my 
> case the
> machine crashes after getting a token. It seems to work before.
>
> I see this problem with all versions of OpenAFS I compiled. My 
> workaround is
> always to use kernel extensions I got some times ago from Hartmut 
> Reuter.
> They work. If this is an old problem, is any patch available somwhere?
>

Yes. In CVS for some time now


Horst