[OpenAFS] some older openafs-client versions have started failing

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 01:34:25AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> 
> > I currently see similar issues with Debian Wheezy and Debian Jessie.
> 
> Can you please provide actual exact (debian) versions, for both the
> openafs-client and kernel?  Attempting to say anything without them would
> require some level of speculation.

Wheezy machine:

# uname -a
Linux tazenda 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.81-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# dpkg -l |grep linux-image-|grep -v dummy|grep -v meta
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64             3.2.81-1         amd64        Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PCs

# dpkg -l |grep openafs
ii  openafs-client                        1.6.1-3+deb7u6   amd64        AFS distributed filesystem client support
ii  openafs-krb5                          1.6.1-3+deb7u6   amd64        AFS distributed filesystem Kerberos 5 integration
ii  openafs-modules-dkms                  1.6.1-3+deb7u6   all          AFS distributed filesystem kernel module DKMS source

# find /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64 -name openafs\* -ls
213952 1120 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1141072 Jul 10 17:29 /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/updates/dkms/openafs.ko

# uptime
 12:06:22 up 4 days, 18:31,  2 users,  load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.12


Jessie machine:

# uname -a
Linux eternium 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux

# dpkg -l |grep linux-image-|grep -v dummy|grep -v meta
ii  linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64            3.16.7-ckt25-2   amd64        Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs

# dpkg -l |grep openafs
ii  openafs-client                        1.6.9-2+deb8u5   amd64        AFS distributed filesystem client support
ii  openafs-krb5                          1.6.9-2+deb8u5   amd64        AFS distributed filesystem Kerberos 5 integration
ii  openafs-modules-dkms                  1.6.9-2+deb8u5   all          AFS distributed filesystem kernel module DKMS source

# find /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64 -name openafs\* -ls
130407 1352 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1383176 May 13 15:33 /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/updates/dkms/openafs.ko

# uptime
 12:13:25 up 4 days, 19:20,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.08


> > git gc consistently fails with ETIMEDOUT for the same path on both
> > machines.  My fileservers have not changed recently.
> >
> > When I mentioned this #openafs on Freenode, Benjamin Kaduk seemed to
> > think this problem exists in the client/cache manager.
> 
> There are new issues in recent versions of the openafs client that can
> manifest like this ... but that would not explain anything if you are
> using the versions from wheezy or even jessie.
> 
> -Ben
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