[27460] in Athena Bugs
Re: OpenAFS sometimes fails to start on Lucid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sun Jun 20 22:02:55 2010
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:02:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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To follow up on this, the /mit automounter also failed to start. My
current runing theory is that occasionally Upstart's init decides that
starting legacy /etc/rc*.d jobs is beneath its station and just doesn't.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> I have essentially Ubuntu Server (10.04/Lucid) running on my laptop, with
> wireless configured in /etc/network/interfaces to automatically start, and
> with the default Ubuntu splash and debathena-openafs-config installed. Once
> every several boots, openafs-client just won't have started (aklog will fail
> with an error indicating it's not running), and there's no evidence in
> /var/log/boot.log that it ever tried, not even "Starting AFS services:".
> /etc/init.d/openafs-client and /etc/rc2.d/S25openafs-client look fine, as do
> /etc/openafs/afs.conf{,.client}. What's going on?
>
> If it's relevant, this might be more likely when I've been rebooting a lot
> (to test grub config); perhaps I've also held down shift during the boot, but
> that really really shouldn't be relevant for userspace initialization.
>
> --
> Geoffrey Thomas
> geofft@mit.edu
>
