Troy,

I'd suggest, in the new release, to add a test in the startup script for a 
file ThisCell with an empty line (currently only an empty file is tested). 
Here is the proposed fix :

--- /tmp/afs    2006-09-28 11:58:00.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/init.d/afs     2006-09-28 11:58:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@
                return 1
        fi
        CELL="$(cat /usr/vice/etc/ThisCell)"
+        if [ -z "$CELL" ]
+        then
+                echo afs: ThisCell is empty.  Not starting. 1>&2
+                return 1
+        fi
        grep -w -q -s ">$CELL" /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
        if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
                echo afs: $CELL from ThisCell is not in CellServDB.  Not 
starting. 1>&2


Michel

--On mercredi 27 septembre 2006 18:45 +0200 Michel Jouvin 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Troy,
>
> Thank you very much. It works !
>
> Michel
>
> --On mercredi 27 septembre 2006 09:28 -0500 Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michel,
>>
>> They are now in the testing area.
>> As I said earlier, when we release S.L. 4.4, we'll move the openafs 1.4.1
>> packages into the errata.  That hopefully will be towards the end of next
>> week.
>>
>> For now you can install them by hand from
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/x86_64/R
>> PMS/openafs
>>
>> rpm -Uvh
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/x86_64/R
>> PMS/openafs/kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-34.ELlargesmp-1.4.1-0.11.SL.x86_6
>> 4.rpm
>>
>> or by yum
>>
>>   yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install
>> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-34.ELlargesmp
>>
>> Troy
>>
>> Michel Jouvin wrote:
>>> Currently I am still running the original SL 4.3 kernel, 2.6.9-34.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>
>>> --On mercredi 27 septembre 2006 08:39 -0500 Troy Dawson
>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michel Jouvin wrote:
>>>>> Is a RPM available to provide kernel-module-openafs for largesmp
>>>>> kernels in SL 4.3 (i386 and/or x86_64) ? largesmp kernel seems to be
>>>>> installed by default on (Opteron?) SMP machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Michel
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I just tested my build scripts.  It seems that largesmp for x86_64 and
>>>> hugemem for i386 don't build with our openafs 1.4.0 rpm, but do build
>>>> with out openafs 1.4.1 rpm.
>>>> We haven't pushed openafs 1.4.1 out to the errata yet, because I was
>>>> waiting until we released S.L. 4.4 ... just incase we had any last
>>>> minute changes to it.
>>>> openafs 1.4.1 is in our testing area though, and I'll put the kernel
>>>> modules I just built up there.
>>>> Is there any particular kernel you need, or just the latest one?  (When
>>>> we release openafs as an errata, we'll have all the kernels, but I
>>>> currently haven't built them all yet.)
>>>>
>>>> Troy
>>
>> --
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