[OpenAFS-port-darwin] OpenAFS 1.4.2 crashing on Intel Macs (10.4)

[Nicholas Riley]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:40:08PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> We have a series of Intel desktops here at work that are crashing in
> the OpenAFS client (1.4.2).  The amount of crashing varies; on some machines
> it's around once per day (it can't be reliably reproduced, though).
> 
> Here is a backtrace from one of the crashes:
> 
> Mon Jan 29 11:49:32 2007
> panic(cpu 3 caller 0x001CFD88): remove_fsref: no named reference

<http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=41550>

We were seeing this on our two iMac Core 2 Duo machines about once a
week.  But strangely, the machines stopped crashing - one hasn't
panicked since November 14, the other since December 16, and they're
public lab machines, so it's not like they don't get any use.  I
applied the patch Derrick suggested to one of them, but it hasn't
panicked since and I haven't been able to give him any more info.

The only other AFS-related weirdness we notice is sometimes the
machines hang for about 2 minutes on login, but this is again
intermittent, and you can't SSH into the machines while this delay is
occurring.

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