[OpenAFS] Continuing problems with aklog on Mac OS X (rc10), internal state confused?

[Marcus Watts]

> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> From: Adam Megacz <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu>
> Organization:  UC Berkeley
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Continuing problems with aklog on Mac OS X (rc10), internal state
>  confused?
> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:27:35 -0700
> 
> 
> This is a real Heisenbug.  From time to time, OpenAFS gets in this
> weird state where any aklog attempts give me this (kinit works fine,
> btw):
> 
>   aklog: unable to obtain tokens for cell megacz.com (status: 11862790).
> 
> But simply stopping and restarting the OpenAFS service fixes everything:
> 
>   megacz@maxwell:~$sudo /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/OpenAFS stop
>   Stopping AFS
>   Unmounting /afs
>   Shutting down afsd processes
>   Unloading AFS kernel extensions
> 
>   megacz@maxwell:~$sudo /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/OpenAFS start
>   Starting OpenAFS
>   Loading AFS kernel extensions
>   kextload: /var/db/openafs/etc/afs.kext loaded successfully
>   Starting afsd
>   afsd: All AFS daemons started.
> 
>   megacz@maxwell:~$aklog -c megacz.com
> 
>   megacz@maxwell:~$
> 
> So, it looks like there's some internal state inside the OpenAFS
> kernel module (or afsd) that is getting confused.  Anybody have any
> ideas on what that bit of state might be?
> 
>   - a
> 
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	sisyphus% translate_et 11862790
	11862790 (ktc).6 = unknown cell was passed to SetToken
	sisyphus% 

I wouldn't care to venture why your cache manager is forgetting
all knowledge of your cell.

But I venture to guess that "fs newcell megacz.com <some-list-of-ip-addresses>"
might be a more precise fix than reloading the cache manager.

					-Marcus Watts