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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 -- Matt Kolb <[log in to unmask]> Academic Computing & Network Services Michigan State University