[OpenAFS] Weird conflict between openafs kernel module and nvidia driver on Ubuntu

[Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)]

In message <A32B072C-C975-4519-A502-967137D9380C@ridgetopgroup.com>,"Karl M. Da
vis" writes:
>I just opened this bug on Launchpad last night:
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers=
>-177/+bug/294527
> 
>Screwy as hell, seems to me.

just looking through your dmesg output, i think this is likely your
problem:

[   34.396041] afs: Lost contact with volume location server 75.146.134.33 in cell davisonlinehome.name
[   34.396050] afs: Lost contact with volume location server 75.146.134.33 in cell davisonlinehome.name
[   37.952175] allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
[   37.952744] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x23:0xffffffff:688)
[   37.952753] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
[   39.550637] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   39.552383] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX


out of vmalloc is 'bad'.  looks like your are using the memory cache and
it is probably chewing up a bit of memory.  what chunksize are you using?