[OpenAFS] Linux-VServer and openAFS

["Einar S. Idsø"]

Sorry to reply to my own post, but it seems like I should perhaps
invert and rephrase my questions: ;)

Has anyone - anyone at all - successfully managed to get openAFS to work
with a linux-vserver kernel?

If noone has managed to make it work, then I may as well consider it a
lost cause and go ahead with NFS... :(

Cheers,
Einar

Einar S. Idsø wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just joined this list hoping to get some help with making openAFS
> work with a vserver-kernel. Everything below concerns the vserver host,
> not the guests.
> 
>>From the maillist archive, I was able to compile a working openafs modu=
le:
> https://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2005-October/019749.html
> 
> I am following the Gentoo howto for setting up openAFS:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml#doc_chap5
> 
> In the first step in starting the AFS server, I am to run 'bosserver
> -noauth &'. This results in the creation of two symlinks:
> /etc/openafs/CellServDB -> /etc/openafs/server/CellServDB
> /etc/openafs/ThisCell -> /etc/openafs/server/ThisCell
> 
> and one file:
> /etc/openafs/server/ThisCell
> 
> At this point bosserver dies. I am therefore unable to progress.
> 
> (Note: The path in the howto says /usr/vice/etc/, but this has been
> changed to /etc/openafs).
> 
> I have tried to recompile openafs with and without the fix in the
> maillist archive above, but I keep getting the same result: Two
> symlinks, one file and one dead bosserver.
> 
> Apparently bosserver is very unhappy on my server:
> # bosserver -help
> Segmentation fault
> 
> A bt on the coredump gives:
> #0  0x00000000004067cf in bozo_rxstat_userok ()
> #1  0x00002aaaaacf2644 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #2  0x00000000004057ea in ?? ()
> #3  0x00007fffffe225a8 in ?? ()
> #4  0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
> #5  0x0000000000000002 in ?? ()
> #6  0x00007fffffe227e1 in ?? ()
> #7  0x00007fffffe227eb in ?? ()
> #8  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> 
> My setup:
> Dual Opteron 250
> Gentoo Linux
> 2.6.15-vs2.0.1-gentoo-r5 SMP kernel
> 
> On similar hardware, but running a non-vserver kernel, bosserver works
> fine.
> 
> Does anyone have any clue what is going on, how it can be fixed, or how
> I can help get it fixed? I am no capable programmer, but I am more than
> happy to fiddle about with stuff on my server to get things working :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Einar
> 
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