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Athena 9.0.3 on Linux: SMP+afs broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue May 22 15:53:10 2001
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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 May 2001 15:53:00 -0400
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The boot code is looking for libafs-2.4.2-2smp.mp.o; the installation
has libafs-2.4.2.mp.o instead, so loading doesn't work. Putting in a
symlink causes the module to load, but the machine appears to hang
after "found 1557 non-empty cache files (15%)." No disk activity, no
other output.
I did an interactive boot, and delayed bringing up AFS until I could
do it running under a shell. The config_afs script hangs; there's a
process sitting there taking 99.9% of a cpu according to ps:
cp /afs/athena.mit.edu/service/CellServDB /usr/vice/etc/Ctmp
And four of the afsd processes are also in run state, taking about
17.5% each.
jhutz says, via zephyr:
Ah. I'm pretty sure you unconditionally lose running AFS on SMP
with 2.4.2. Upgrade to 2.4.4. Athena 9.0 should not use 2.4.2 if
it expect to support SMP machines.
and
I am fairly sure that it doesn't work. I have heard no reports of
anyone getting AFS to work on an SMP machine running 2.4.2. I
would suggest consulting the openafs-{info,devel} archives to be
sure
Ouch.
So, I'm guessing that no one in the Athena alpha testers list is using
an SMP box?
Ken
