[OpenAFS] More Quick Start Woes: afsd: Can't mount AFS on /afs(22)

[Joakim Fallsjö]

On 9/29/10 14:29 , Phillip Moore wrote:
> The Quick Start Guide has clearly atrophied (not just whining -- I *will*
> patch it... :-)
>
> Thanks to the help so far, I've gotten as far as rebooting and trying to
> mount /afs, but no further.   I discovered the CellServDB.dist and
> CellServDB.local files (neat trick) which are not documented in the QSG,
> sorted those files out, but still I'm getting:
>
> afsd: Can't mount AFS on /afs(22)
>
> I ran afsd with -verbose, and the output seems to indicate that everything's
> fine up to mounting root.afs (see below). As suggested by the QSG, I removed
> -dynroot from /etc/sysconfig/openafs, and I have created my root.afs volume,
> but that is the ONLY volume I have.
>
> I am starting to get the impression that I need to pre-create some more
> volume infrastructure, perhaps.   Do I need anything other than root.afs to
> get started?   The QSG doesn't have you create anything other than root.afs
> until AFTER you have started the client for the first time.
>
> I believe my client config files are correct:
>
> [root@fhcore ~]# cat /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell
> d.fh.nyc.us.boot.efs[root@fhcore ~]#
> [root@fhcore ~]# cat /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
>> d.fh.nyc.us.boot.efs #Cell name
> 192.168.1.121    #fhcore
>

Um, wasn't there a magic dependency that the name after the pundsign (#) 
has to be resolvable FQDN (preferably forward and reverse) to the IP on 
the left hand side?

 >sanchin.se             #Sanchin Consulting AB, Sweden
192.195.148.10                  #sesan.sanchin.se

/JockeF