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Re: "Your AFS client does not seem to be working."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Fri Feb 27 03:34:57 2009
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:33:58 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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[-user]
Do we have an idea what's going on here? It's troubling if someone
has AFS not working after installing Debathena and we can't figure it
out.
Greg
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:23:39PM -0500, Cathy Wu wrote:
> Ok, I dropped down to the root prompt and reverted the change. So my ubuntu
> partition is working again.
>
> Here is what I see in the terminal when I try to make the change again:
>
> $ sudo nano /etc/openafs/afs.conf
> $ sudo /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart
> Stopping AFS services: openafs.
> Starting AFS services: openafs afsd.
> afsd: All AFS daemons started.
> [**here, the system hangs]
> $ sudo /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart
> Stopping AFS services:afsd: Shutting down all afs processes and afs state
> [**here, the system hangs again]
>
> Additionally, the system hangs again when I revert the change and restart
> the openafs-client. I'm not really understanding the situation. What
> should I try next? Please advise me.
>
> Thanks for your patience,
>
> Cathy
>
>
>
>
>
> 2009/2/14 Cathy Wu <cathywu@mit.edu>
>
> > Thanks again for your quick reply. I tried the above and then upon running
> > 'sudo /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart,' the terminal would hold when the
> > openafsd processes tried to stop. I thought it would be a good idea to
> > restart my machine, so I did so, and now I come across the same error
> > message when I try to boot (unsuccessfully).
> >
> > I am now using my Windows partition. Is there any way to revert the change
> > and/or fix the problem?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Cathy
> >
> > 2009/2/11 Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
> >
> > Hi Cathy -
> >> As the message suggests, your hard drive was not formatted with
> >> either ext2 or ext3, which are the only supported filesystems for the
> >> local AFS cache on Linux.
> >>
> >> A fairly straightforward alternative is to keep the AFS cache entirely
> >> in memory, instead of on disk. To enable this, edit
> >> /etc/openafs/afs.conf, and find the line that sets the OPTIONS variable
> >> (should be line 65 or so). Edit that line to say
> >>
> >> OPTIONS="-stat 10000 -daemons 6 -volumes 200 -memcache"
> >>
> >> Then run `sudo /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart`
> >>
> >> - Evan
> >>
> >> Cathy Wu wrote:
> >> > Thank you for the quick reply.
> >> >
> >> > I checked debathena.list and the 2 lines were already uncommented. I
> >> > then ran the 3 commands and got:
> >> >
> >> > $ sudo /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart
> >> > Stopping AFS services: openafs.
> >> > Starting AFS services: openafs afsd.
> >> > afsd: ERROR: Cache dir check failed (must use ext2 or ext3 for cache
> >> > partition)
> >> > fs: Invalid argument.
> >> >
> >> > Do you have any further advice?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!
> >> >
> >> > Cathy
> >> >
> >> > 2009/2/9 Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu <mailto:broder@mit.edu>>
> >> >
> >> > Hi Cathy -
> >> > If you edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debathena.list, you'll find
> >> > that
> >> > there should be two lines that were commented out by the release
> >> > upgrade
> >> > process. The contents of that file should look something like this:
> >> >
> >> > deb http://debathena.mit.edu/apt intrepid debathena
> >> debathena-config
> >> > debathena-system openafs
> >> > deb-src http://debathena.mit.edu/apt intrepid debathena
> >> > debathena-config
> >> > debathena-system openafs
> >> >
> >> > Edit the file to contain those two lines, and then run "sudo
> >> aptitude
> >> > update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade"
> >> >
> >> > You may also need to run "sudo /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart"
> >> > after
> >> > that.
> >> >
> >> > - Evan
> >> >
> >> > Cathy Wu wrote:
> >> > > Dear Debathena maintainers,
> >> > >
> >> > > I tried to "add 6.02" today and came across this error: "Your AFS
> >> > > client does not seem to be working" when I tried to renew my
> >> tokens.
> >> > > I've followed the troubleshooting page without success
> >> > > (http://debathena.mit.edu/troubleshooting > Stock Kernel >
> >> Ubuntu).
> >> > >
> >> > > I've been using debathena for a few weeks without issues, but I've
> >> > > recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10. I suspect that is where the
> >> > problem
> >> > > is and would like to cleanly uninstall debathena. How can I do
> >> > that?
> >> > >
> >> > > If I am misguided in my thinking, please advise me!
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks!
> >> > > Cathy
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
