[7940] in testers
Re: AFS Weirdness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sat Mar 14 10:24:43 2009
Cc: Adam B Seering <aseering@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0903141016340.15917@quickstation-next-house.mit.edu>
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:23:21 -0400
I believe trackerd runs regardless, but it doesn't actually index for
new users.
What does "grep EnableIndexing ~/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg" say?
-Jon
On Mar 14, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
