[OpenAFS] Installing OpenAFS 1.6.0pre6 on Snow Leopard (MacBookPro2,2) not working

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:35:56 -0400


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:24 AM, John Tang Boyland
<boyland@pabst.cs.uwm.edu> wrote:
> Derrick Brashear wrote:
> ] On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:20 PM, John Tang Boyland
> ] <boyland@pabst.cs.uwm.edu> wrote:
> ] > Today after not using OpenAFS for a few weeks (after at least one res=
tart
> ] > when I increased RAM from 2GB to 3GB),
> ] > I noticed that OpenAFS wasn't working: /afs was empty. =A0"fs checks"
> ] > didn't report any problems. =A0kinit/aklog worked just fine.
> ] >
> ] > I tried restarting OpenAFS manually using:
> ] > $ sudo /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/OpenAFS
> ]
> ] which shouldn't exist in a 1.6.0pre6 install; afs isn't started that
> ] way now and not for quite some time
> ]
> ] sudo rm /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/OpenAFS
> ] /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.openafs.filesystems.afs.plist
>
> Done. (I wonder if this hanging around has been causing all my problems?
> Should newer installs remove it?)

well, the second is the current startup item; the other is the old
one. the question is
how you ended up with it there, as an upgrade from a version which
includes it should remove it!

> ] and then reboot.
>
> I had to force quit the installer (it didn't want to close),
> and then on when shutting down, it hung and had to be powered down,
> but then when I immediately resarted again, it was able
> to go down. =A0Then I reinstalled pre6 and everything went fine
> and after another non-hanging restart, things are working fine.
>
> Thanks,
> John
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Derrick