[7939] in testers
Re: AFS Weirdness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sat Mar 14 10:19:20 2009
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:17:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Adam B Seering <aseering@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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Are you running a trackerd process? Try running 'pkill trackerd', and see
if that makes the AFS weirdness go away.
New users shouldn't have trackerd, but you've probably logged your Athena
account in to a pre-Intrepid Ubuntu machine and gotten the old default
(i.e., on).
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Adam B Seering wrote:
> Hey again,
> I've been trying to print an 11x17" PDF from DebAthena this morning.
>
> First, Evince doesn't appear able to do this...; I can't seem to find
> a way to specify paper size.
>
> Second, I've been trying to open one of (xpdf, acroread) to test this
> out. At first, I was getting weird errors trying to "athrun acro acroread".
> This has progressed to completely random AFS errors, typically of the form
> "FOO: No such file or directory", where FOO clearly exists (it may or may not
> show up with "ls"). Right now, my home directory has even ceased to exist,
> so "cd ~" errors out. (On that note, I should probably log out while I still
> can...) This seems to have been getting progressively worse; I used to be
> able to cd into /mit/outland/arch/, but no longer can.
>
> I do have Kerberos tickets and AFS tokens; I just did "kinit ; aklog"
> and it didn't fix the problem. ("aklog sipb" didn't help either, with
> SIPB-cell lockers.)
>
> This was on W20-575-6.
>
> Enjoy,
> Adam
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