[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: OS X hangs when accessing files

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Systems Administration wrote:

> Thanks Derrick, this appears to have fixed it.  So far *knock* *knock* its 
> working.  Will stress test it today with a load of writes and reads to the 
> server and report back.
>
> I was able to grab the tarball over AFS from the affected G4 - so the mac 
> client was not completely fscked,

Yeah, that's expected. The process which did the "bad" operation ends up 
deadlocked, and the client otherwise continues on like normal.

> I did note that one reason for hangs on the 
> client side is that the OS X Finder does not appear to properly handle the 
> anonymous browse state when anonymous has no 'system:anyuser' permissions.

Elaborate on this. If you get tickets, does it stop hanging?

> If an aklog ticket exists there is no hang for the same location in the GUI. 
> This does not appear to be an AFS issue since a terminal shell correctly 
> fails to 'ls' the directory with a 'permission denied' error.