[OpenAFS] Currently correct info for Debian sarge OpenAFS install?

[Eric Bennett]

Hi Russ,

configuration.transcript.txt.gz has been my working document, I've gotten to the vos create part and no further, as you'll see further on this thread.

Regards
Eric




Russ Allbery wrote:

>Eric Bennett <eric@umbralservices.com> writes:
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>>I've been having a nightmare of a time trying to get openafs installed
>>under debian, I've gotten to the point where you create a volume (I
>>assume) with the command vos create (host) a root.afs -localauth and it
>>just hangs, I've tried stracing the filesserver process as well as the
>>bosserver process, it appears to be hanging on
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>>[pid  7169] connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(2040),
>>sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection
>>refused)
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>Well, this particular problem is because of /etc/hosts, as previously
>mentioned.  (That's the only reason why something would be connecting to
>127.0.0.1.)
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>Have you read the documentation in the OpenAFS sarge package in
>/usr/share/doc/openafs-dbserver?  In particular, you want to read
>README.servers and configuration.transcript.txt.gz.  The latter steps you
>through the whole process of setting up a new cell; you say below that you
>didn't think the documentation is adequate, but that transcript is about
>the most useful documentation I've seen for installing OpenAFS.
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>The Debian package comes with afs-newcell and afs-rootvol scripts that
>automate part of this process and also check various things, including the
>127.0.0.1 problem that you had above (in the version in sid; that check
>hasn't migrated into sarge yet).
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