[8533] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Problem with Sun machines hanging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Cook)
Wed Mar 7 16:29:47 2001
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:21:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Cook <bobcook@slac.stanford.edu>
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To: Colleen Hayase <hayase@us.ibm.com>
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
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>This is probably a Solaris problem but I thought I'd throw it out to the
>AFS community in case it rings a bell...
It definitely rings a bell, but it is an AFS bell rather than a Solaris bell.
We reported this to Transarc last year as their problem TR-53970. It was
(supposedly) identified as
* Defect 12418
(Solaris only) This fix corrects a problem that occurred when a
process attempted to access the proc file system.
and fixed in level afs3.6 2.5. There was also a fix for afs3.5, but I don't
know which level it went into, or even if it did.
The "supposedly" above is simply because it's very difficult to determine if
it fixed the problem; we could never reliably recreate the problem. I can
say that we have no confirmed cases of it occurring on a machine running the
fixed client.
