[OpenAFS] crash on AIX 5.2

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Michael Niksch wrote:

> > 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 am seeing that same problem with 1.3.77 on all AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.1, 
> and AIX 5.2, both 32 and 64 bit kernel. In contrast to previous 
> versions of 1.3, I can at least load the kernel extensions now. 
> Obtaining a token with 1.3.77 'klog' from a kaserver causes a core 
> dump, and trying to use a token obtained with 1.2.10 'klog' results in 
> a system crash.
>
> Yes, I understand that 'klog' and 'kaserver' are considered more or 
> less deprecated, and we are in fact planning to change to a Kerberos 5 
> setup, but this migration will take us quite some time to complete. 
> Also, we will need continued interoperability with legacy IBM Transarc 
> AFS cells for quite some time to come. So it would be great if 
> 'kaserver' support wasn't silently dropped out of OpenAFS already at 
> this point.
>

I don't think that has happened but maybe somebody else can comment on 
that...

> So far, I haven't been able to compile ANY version of OpenAFS client 
> to work on AIX 5. The server code might be less problematic as it 
> doesn't involve kernel extensions, but I am also still running 1.2.11 
> server binaries compiled on AIX 4.3.3 on my AIX 5.2 servers.
>
The stable tree has never had any support for AIX 5, in any way ever. 
If you try any, please use the CVS version.

Horst