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Re: NetBSD install problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Sat Apr 11 00:31:58 1998
To: elliotw@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:22:38 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:31:50 EDT
> I've just installed NetBSD on my PC, and I'm having trouble with AFS.
> In particular, when I boot immediately after the install, I receive a
> series of "Bad system call -- core dumped" messages right after the
> message listing servers from which setuid/setgid programs can be run.
> There is also one of these messages while loading an earlier module,
> although I can't recall exactly which one. The installation itself
> seemed to complete successfully, and I can log in to the machine, but
> can't access anything via AFS (/afs is empty).
Hi. This sounds like AFS didn't load at all. If you run
"modstat", is the AFS module listed? If not, it will be most useful if
you can tell us the error message that happens when the system tries
to load AFS. Have you done anything to the kernel, or booted from a
nonstandard kernel? If you haven't booted from /netbsd, the AFS module
won't work.
Additionally, look at the text files in /usr/vice/etc:
CellServDB, ThisCell, SuidCells. They should all be quite readable; if
they are corrupted you'll need to copy in an uncorrupted version;
either the .public copy of the file in the same directory, or perhaps
by FTP'ing them from another machine (which for those files does not
need to be a NetBSD machine).
- Nathan
