[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Conflicts when network disconnected

[Philip Choi]

This is what I was afraid of.  So then the problem is that there is 
no way to unmount the AFS volumes.  Just great...

Thanks for the info.  Hey, I did my BS at Cornell!

Phil

At 9:59 AM -0500 12/7/04, David Botsch wrote:
>If you are just booting, then, you can boot with the -nomount option, which
>will cause afs to not mount anything, hence, no hangs. You can then use the
>Mount_AFS gui tool available from:
>
>http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/publicdownloads/afs/
>
>to mount afs once you have a network. You'll also want to edit your 
>afs startup
>script so that afs always starts, regardless of whether the network 
>is present.
>
>Now, this doesn't help you if you're already up, afs is already mounted, then,
>you disconnect from the network. Once the finder or some app tries to stat
>stuff in afs, you're going to see hangs. Unless something has changed, there
>doesn't seem to be a clean way to unmount afs or stop then restart afs if
>you've already done stuff in afsland.
>
>On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:25:51PM -0500, Philip Choi wrote:
>>  I have OpenAFS installed on my laptop running 10.3.6.  So when I'm
>>  not connected to a network, there are some problems.  Notably:
>>
>>  Finder sometimes hangs, waiting for each AFS server to time-out.
>>  Mounting disk images causes hang, waiting for AFS servers to time-out.
>>  Certain applications, like Now Contact and Canon EOS Viewer Utility
>>  do not launch or do not work properly.  They only work again when the
>>  network is reconnected and the AFS volumes are "back up".
>>
>>  Does anyone know about this, and is there any workaround?  Seems a
>>  shame that disconnected network volumes would cause so much trouble.
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