On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Matt Kolb wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Matt Kolb wrote:
>
>> The gist of this message is:
>>
>> If you have Solaris 10 boxes, and they are OpenAFS clients, wait
>> to upgrade them to u4 until OpenAFS gets it's code base straight.
>>
>> OpenAFS had relied on a private interface *SLAP* in the Solaris
>> kernel for some things, and that private interface changed. One
>> of the guys from UMBC is working on what looks like a reasonable
>> solution, and I'd expect they'll roll another release of 1.4.x
>> shortly, but anyways, again, don't upgrade to u4 if you're running
>> a 1.4.4 or older version of the OpenAFS client.
>
> If you're adventuresome, a patch has been posted which deals with
> this issue. You need to apply it against the 1.4.4 source. It is
> located here:
>
> http://elektronkind.org/outbox/afs/openafs-s10u4-compat.patch
>
> If you're adventuresome, but not THAT adventuresome, I have applied
> the patch and built the binaries for sunx86_510, which you can get
> here:
>
> http://www.msu.edu/~mk/openafs-1.4.4-sunx86_510-u4-fix.tar
>
> I've been running it for about an hour without issue, but obviously
> this is *brand new* so I wouldn't roll it into your live
> environment until the patch gets accepted and a new version of
> OpenAFS is released.
Okay, so to put this thread to rest, the patch has been folded into
this pre-release:
http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/candidate/1.4.5pre2/
openafs-1.4.5pre2-src.tar.bz2
./mk
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Academic Computing & Network Services
Michigan State University
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