[OpenAFS-port-darwin] afs client startup on intel macs

[Keith Johnston]

Thanks,  using dynroot seems to fix this problem for my users.

Regards

Keith
On 28/09/2006, at 9:49 AM, Nicholas Riley wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:43:50AM +1200, Keith Johnston wrote:
>> 	I have a couple of users with either core duo or core 2 duo iMacs
>> and they have noticed that their openafs clients are not starting up
>> when their machine starts or is rebooted. This seems to be happening
>> with both openafs 1.4.1 on the core duo and openafs 1.4.2fc4 on the
>> core 2 duo.
>> 	The users can manually start it from /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/
>> OpenAFS, but I am wondering if there is something I am missing here.
>
> The problem may be that OpenAFS is trying to start before the network
> is up, if you aren't using -dynroot.  It seems launchd is broken so it
> doesn't evaluate dependencies, so whatever you put in
> StartupParameters.plist doesn't matter.  We worked around it by
> switching to -dynroot for our standard configuration, even on machines
> with full-time network connections.
>
> --  
> Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/ 
> njriley>

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