[OpenAFS] AFS related problem with firefox

[Juha Jäykkä]

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Environment: Debian/Stable, openafs-client 1.3.81 (as distributed by
Debian), firefox 1.0.4 (again, as distributed by Debian in the stable
distribution). User's $HOME's are on AFS, binaries are (still) local.

Now, the following happens on one and only one machine. Starting firefox
takes the best part of the day. It blocks *all* AFS traffic while it's
starting, including its own: it gets stuck trying to close() (I ran
strace on it) files it reads and writes during startup. Eventually, it
will succeed, but only after having frozen the user's HOME for a
significant number of minutes first. Exporting HOME=3D/tmp, firefox starts
in a timely fashion without freezing anything. Thus I deem this is
somehow AFS related. On other machines, firefox works normally. Anyone
any pointers as to what to do?

There is one difference [1] between this and other machines, though: it is
running Debian pre-packaged kernel version 2.6.8-3-686, while the others
are 2.6.8-2-686. I haven't yet tried to go back to -2-686 to see if
-3-686 is to blame. I doubt, though, since it's supposed to be bugfixes
only and no other program seems to suffer.

[1] There are HW differences, of course, but there is even a machine with
identical HW sitting not two meters from the problematic machine. Both
have the same set of Debian packages installed and the same configuration.

-Juha

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