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  1. Bug #249240
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Comment 1 for bug 249240

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Russ Allbery (rra-debian) wrote : Re: [Bug 249240] [NEW] OpenAFS client does not wait for DHCP lease

Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> writes:

> I'm using the openafs-client package from Ubuntu Gutsy (openafs-client
> 1.4.4.dfsg1-7). Sometimes the DHCP server is quite slow to respond, but
> OpenAFS already tries to use the network and fails to contact the volume
> location server, making AFS unusable from this client. See the log
> below.
>
> I think the OpenAFS client should only be started after the network
> connection is set up correctly, but it seems to be started too early.

Be sure that you're using -dynroot -afsdb, and you shouldn't have this
problem. OpenAFS only attempts to locate the VLDBs on boot if -dynroot is
not given; otherwise, it waits until you attempt to access files.

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Russ Allbery (<email address hidden>) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>