[OpenAFS-port-darwin] startup cache scan hang

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 3:17 PM -0500 5/27/07, Nicholas Riley wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone seen OpenAFS hang on startup, seemingly during a cache
>scan?  I experienced hangs on over 50% of our machines after both
>recent security updates - even after waiting 15 minutes or more, /afs
>doesn't mount.

I had one problem with OpenAFS hanging on startup. It happened when
I was *downgrading* from 1.5.<mumble> to 1.4.<latest> of the day.
In my case, I rebooted in single-user mode, and removed the entire
cache directory.  (I forget if I re-created it after removing it,
or if I just let openafs recreate it).

I haven't seen any hang problem since then.  I'm running openafs
on two powerPC machines and one Mactel machine.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu