[OpenAFS] AFS related problem with firefox

[Derrick J Brashear]

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On Wed, 24 May 2006, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Wed, 24 May 2006, Juha [UTF-8] J=E4ykk=E4 wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Check out bug 31818 in RT:
> https://grand.central.org/rt/index.html?q=3D31818
>
> There's a patch, and at least one of the reporters says it does not wor=
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> him, which may mean a failure to get notifications, but, if you are wil=
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> to try it, there it is.

And if it doesn't work, Chaskiel had previously observed that firefox als=
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used threads, and perhaps afs_vnop_flock.c should want to look at the cli=
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on Linux like it does on MacOS, BSD and Irix (which I can code up easily,=
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again if you'd like to try it)

And yeah I'm sure someone already told you, but do yourself a favor,=20
configure backports, and get 1.4.1. You can even just make openafs an=20
exception and otherwise disable backports. But, you pretty much actively=20
don't want OpenAFS 1.3.x, despite debian believing it's ok.

Derrick

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