[OpenAFS] Hang on shutdown with OSX ?

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:57:12 -0500


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Ken Hornstein wrote:
>>>
>>> My first reply to Chris was inadvertantly private. I suggested if
>>> there's a time he can leave it go for 10 minutes and see if it
>>> completes, he should. But I guess the followon, which I forgot to
>>> mention, is seeing, after that, what's in /var/log/system.log from the
>>> reboot.
>>
>> When it has happened, I've left it for longer than 10 minutes (once, it
>> was overnight).  Never finished.
>
> Ah, thats a shame. I was hoping that would help.
>
> I don't think it is totally isolated to OSX. My suspicions for AFS where
> raised since I have definitely seen it happen on linux boxes. There, I
> 'know' it is afs that is causing the hang since I can see the init
> messages...

well, you should share those; the thing is, linux, windows and osx are
the only platforms where we *do* support knowing the network is down
and thus immediately time out connections