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Re: Failures with arla-0.23

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
Thu May 13 09:07:11 1999

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To: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Failures with arla-0.23
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
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> I've been having some difficulties with arla-0.23 (on libc6 Linux
> systems running various 2.2 kernels) getting into an odd state
> in which attempts to access files in /afs more or less always hang
> after arla has been active for a day or so.  It can be fixed by
> killing arlad, unmounting /afs, rmmoding xfs, and restarting arla.
> Has anyone else seen this sort of problem?  I recall some messages
> that seemed similar a few weeks ago; it would be nice if this
> problem is fixed in 0.24 when it comes out.

There have been some problems with the timeout mechanisms, but that
has been fixed in 0.24 (we'll release it any day now). I haven't seen
any hanging problems with 0.24.

/Magnus
map@stacken.kth.se

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