[OpenAFS] win7 hangs during login at "welcome" - afs related?

Michael Richter m.richter@tu-berlin.de
Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:39:04 +0200


We have 32 Vista notebooks (same software and configuration) and on 3 of =

them we have exact the same problem. I couldn't find a difference=20
between these machines so it's a strange problem.


Dave B <botsch@cnf.cornell.edu> schrieb am Wed, 09.06.2010 um 15:50:
> Anyone else seen this have any thoughts?
>
> This is one of those annoying can't reproduce on command might happen
> many times in a day then not for a couple of weeks type of bugs.
>
> I don't know that this issue is afs related but am being asked to
> investigate that possibility. We have had both oafs 1.5.65 and oafs
> 1.5.74 on Windows 7, both 32 and 64-bit. Win7 machines in a domain,
> cross realm MIT Kerberos login (except for the Administrative user).
> Integrated login attempted.
>
> After putting in the username and password, sometimes the machine will
> "hang" at the "Welcome" message (the little blue wheel keeps spinning).=

>
> If the hang involves a cross realm Kerberos user, pslist -t \\machine
> does not show a mpnotify or krbcc32s running as subprocesses of the
> logonui process. Process auditing would appear to show that mpnotify
> never fired off. I can pskill logonui and get back to the ctrl-alt-del
> login screen but the computer will just hang, again (a reboot by
> pressing the reset button seems to fix it for a while).
>
> If the hang has involved Administrator (not in MIT Kerberos) in the
> domain, pslist -t \\machine *does* show mpnotify and krbcc32s both
> running.
>
> I've turned on both the afsd_service TraceOption and the Microsoft user=

> profile logging... nothing was ever logged in the log files, at least
> when a MIT cross realm Kerberos user was involved. I have not
> specifically managed to have both logging and an Administrator hang
> happen yet, as I can't reproduce this on command.
>
> Thoughts on where the issue might be and things to check out?
>
> thanks!
>
>

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