[OpenAFS] Problem building a Debian package in AFS == RX CID bug

Sergio Gelato Sergio.Gelato@astro.su.se
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:20:59 +0200


* Jeffrey E Altman [2021-09-11 23:44:19 -0400]:
> On 9/11/2021 10:57 PM, deb251@lewenberg.com wrote:
> > buster:
> > Trying 192.168.225.188 (port 7001):
> > AFS version: OpenAFS 1.8.2-1+deb10u1-debian 2021-07-21 root@buster-serv=
er
>=20
> This is a totally broken client because of the RX CID bug and it cannot
> successfully communicate with any AFS location server or file server.=A0

If this were truly the case it would make the claim that it works in buster
(Debian 10) and not in bullseye (Debian 11) even more remarkable.

> the latest buster package of OpenAFS is 1.8.2-1+deb10u1 which does not
> contain the RX CID fix.=A0

The Debian changelog says

openafs (1.8.2-1+deb10u1) buster; urgency=3Dhigh

  * Pull in upstream patches to fix outgoing connections after unix
    epoch time 0x60000000 (Closes: #980115, #980116)

 -- Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>  Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:13:14 -0800