[OpenAFS-port-darwin] OpenAFS Client 1.6.1 (Snow Leopard) installer reports error / aklog fails

[Garance A Drosihn]

On 4/5/12 7:08 PM, Duncan S Kincaid wrote:
> We have not had success installing the latest OpenAFS 1.6.1 client.
> Particulars:
>
> OpenAFS Client:
> OpenAFS 1.6.1 for MacOS 10.6 (MacOS 10.6 (Snowleopard) Universal package
> <http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.1/macos-10.6/OpenAFS-1.6.1-Snowleopard.dmg>)
>
> Hardware:
> 1. variety of iMacs (all with Core 2 Duo processors)
> 2. MacPro1,1 (2 Dual-Core Xeon)
>
> OS:
> OS X 10.6.8 with very latest patches installed
>
> Error:
> 1. at conclusion of install, "There were errors in the installation. You
> may want to try installing again."
>
> Observations:
> 1. running the installer again results in same error message.
> 2. uninstalling, the running installer again results in same error message
> 3. attempting 'aklog' post install (with error message) produces:
> "aklog: a pioctl failed while obtaining tokens for cell ..."
>
> Solution:
> 1. roll back to OpenAFS 1.5.78 following uninstall of 1.6.1
>
> are any others seeing issues with openAFS 1.6.1 client?
>

For what it's worth, I installed openafs 1.6.1 on my Mac Pro which is
a 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon running MacOS 10.6.8 (along with all
the latest updates from Apple).  I wasn't planning on installing it
today, but we had a 30-minute power-outage and that's longer than the
UPS in my office will last.

The machine had been running 1.6.1-pre2.  The install went fine without
any problems, and in my limited testing everything seems to be working
okay.  Before 1.6.1-pre2 it had been running 1.6.0-release, and before
that it had been running 1.5.78-release.

Now that you've dropped back to 1.5.78 and it is working, what happens
if you try to install 1.6.1 on top of that?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn                =     drosih@rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA