[OpenAFS] LDAP and Krb5 and OpenAFS - problem?

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>> - be prepared openAFS kernel module sometimes is not so stable on =
linux
>> platform For example: slocate (updatedb)

>What problems are you seeing with stability related to slocate?

For example
With couple last release of openafs (1.2.13, 1.3.84)
The slocate process could cause the following kernel failures:

/
- in both cases if /afs included in or not included in updatedb.conf
- I saw discussions of same type problems in inet
- that's not an issue of bad RAM modules or other hardware
/


 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address =
61726188
 kernel:  printing eip:
 kernel: c014c218
 kernel: *pde =3D 00000000
 kernel: Oops: 0000
 kernel: CPU:    0
 kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c014c218>]    Tainted: PF
 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
 kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: c5711150   ecx: c5711160   edx: c5711160
 kernel: esi: 61726168   edi: 00000000   ebp: 00000183   esp: c12dff1c
 kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
 kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=3Dc12df000)
 kernel: Stack: cf308c28 cf308c10 c5711150 c0149c4b c5711150 c115b650 =
c115b634 00000000=20
 kernel:        c0321198 c0149f90 0000167c c012fc53 00000006 000001d0 =
ffffffff 00000b85=20
 kernel:        000001d0 00000001 00000020 000001d0 c0321198 c0321198 =
c012ffef c12dff94=20
 kernel: Call Trace:    [<c0149c4b>] [<c0149f90>] [<c012fc53>] =
[<c012ffef>] [<c0130050>]
 kernel:   [<c0130216>] [<c0130286>] [<c01303b8>] [<c0105000>] =
[<c0107343>] [<c0130320>]
 kernel:=20
 kernel: Code: 8b 46 20 85 c0 74 11 89 c7 8b 40 18 85 c0 0f 85 14 02 00 =
00=20

 kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address =
3c202040
 kernel:  printing eip:
 kernel: c014c218
 kernel: *pde =3D 00000000
 kernel: Oops: 0000
 kernel: CPU:    0
 kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c014c218>]    Tainted: PF
 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
 kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: c5711320   ecx: c5711330   edx: c5711330
 kernel: esi: 3c202020   edi: 00000000   ebp: 0000180b   esp: c1f15d70
 kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
 kernel: Process updatedb (pid: 31345, stackpage=3Dc1f15000)
 kernel: Stack: cf308c98 cf308c80 c5711320 c0149c4b c5711320 c110cc04 =
c110cbe8 00000000=20
 kernel:        c0321198 c0149f90 0000180b c012fc53 00000006 000001f0 =
ffffffff 000010b1=20
 kernel:        000001f0 00000015 00000020 000001f0 c0321198 c0321198 =
c012ffef c1f15de8=20
 kernel: Call Trace:    [<c0149c4b>] [<c0149f90>] [<c012fc53>] =
[<c012ffef>] [<c0130050>]
 kernel:   [<c0131058>] [<c01313d4>] [<c0131545>] [<c012ee1a>] =
[<c012f610>] [<c012ef9f>]
 kernel:   [<c014ac11>] [<c014be06>] [<c014c173>] [<c0173350>] =
[<c014148a>] [<c0141ae6>]
 kernel:   [<c0141db9>] [<c0142019>] [<c013ea15>] [<c0108d73>]
 kernel:=20
 kernel: Code: 8b 46 20 85 c0 74 11 89 c7 8b 40 18 85 c0 0f 85 14 02 00 =
00=20