[19752] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.0.15: gx150s lacking afs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Sep 5 15:35:55 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:35:52 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
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Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> wrote on Wed, 5 Sep 2001
at 15:17:05 -0400 in <200109051917.PAA25075@brad-majors.mit.edu>:
> At this time we don't know when this bug is likely to be fixed.
If the outlook is as bleak as that, may we please consider
some sort of mitigation, i.e. a cron job that reboots the machine
if the right criteria are met? Or perhaps reactivate?
--jhawk
> Thanks for reporting this. The problem turns out to be a known
> bug in OpenAFS; if the AFS client is started while the machine cannot
> access root.afs for whatever reason (all servers it's on are down,
> network outage, etc) the machine will be stuck in the state you
> described, and can only be fixed by rebooting. In this case, this
> morning's network outage in W20 was what triggered the problem.
