[1222] in athena10
Re: "Your AFS client does not seem to be working."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Fri Feb 27 03:42:16 2009
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:41:16 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Cathy Wu <cathywu@mit.edu>
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Hi Cathy -
Sorry nobody's gotten back to you sooner; I think we're all a little
stumped by this one.
Why don't you stop by the SIPB office at some point? Having the computer
physically in front of you usually makes debugging easier.
We're in W20-557 (right by the Athena cluster). We don't hold fixed
hours, but you can call 617-253-7788 beforehand to see if anyone's around.
- Evan
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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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
> >
> >
>
>
>
