Linux kernel 2.2.19 incompatible with AFS?

[Nathan Neulinger]

Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> 
> I recently upgraded to kernel 2.2.19 on various Linux boxes.
> 
> Now afsd chokes with the following log messages:
> 
> No check server daemon in client.
> All AFS daemons started.
> All AFS daemons started.
> Can't mount AFS on /afs(22).
> 
> It's not that the network isn't working, it's doing fine. The same
> machines work fine with AFS on older kernels up to 2.2.18. I've got
> AFS 3.6, and I've tried both release 2.0 and release 2.5, but no can
> do.
> 
> Upgrading to 2.2.19 is essential because of security issues. Anybody
> got any insight into this?
> 
> PS. Transarc, the afs.rc file doesn't exit with an error status if
>     afsd fails to start, as in this case. This is trivial to fix for
>     the next release, so please do.

Get yourself a copy of libafs-2.2.19.o from OpenAFS until transarc
releases a new kernel module.

-- Nathan

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