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

[Dave B]

We skipped over vista...

A few questions...

1. are you doing integrated login?
2. are the computers in a domain?
3. are you doing cross-realm mit kerberos logins?

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:39 +0200, Michael Richter wrote:
> 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 
> 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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