arla 0.35.11 and MacOS 10.2 finder regression?

[Thomas Jordan]

Hi Aaron,

I have installed 0.35.11 on several machines and have not noticed this 
issue. It may have happened for a bit on one machine, but I turned to 
something else and it went away. The Finder could only have "looked" 
for < 1 minute before responding well.

Did you remember to change /usr/arla/etc/ThisCell to your local cell? I 
think that the installer writes a new one containing stacken.kth.se. 
Mine reads:

	[dix:~] jordant% more /usr/arla/etc/ThisCell
	fnal.gov

Does yours read umich.edu? If you are getting tokens, then ThisCell 
must be right. Perhaps that is not it....

While the beach ball is spinning, run top and look for the process 
using up all of the cycles. Is it arlad or the Finder?

What happens when you force quit the finder and then poll afs again? 
Same hang-up?

Among the machines that runs arla well is this old, dinged up 
Wallstreet so it shouldn't be related to your hardware. What happens if 
you just let the Finder poll for a while? Does it stop after several 
minutes? ...at all?

Which OS X are you running? I have 10.2.3 (Darwin Kernel 6.3) now but 
this was also working well in 10.2.2.

Best regards,
	Tom


On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 15:44 America/Chicago, Aaron Rosenblum 
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I have had success using arla on my MacOS X boxes in the past.  In 
> fact I was fairly impressed with how 0.35.10 handled on my iBook.  I 
> like the idea of using arla on my portable because it provides a 
> graphical tool that will allow me to start/stop afs on demand when I 
> go in and out of wireless network range.  In any case, I wanted to 
> check out the new cocoa shell for afslog so I installed 0.35.11 on my 
> iBook.  I checked off the auth and show boxes for my cell 'umich.edu' 
> using the Cell Setup tab in the Arla Configuration app and then 
> clicked the "Start" button.  AFS showed up in the finder, but it seems 
> that I am not back to the days of clicking on AFS in the finder and 
> having it "beach ball" indefinitely.  This was not that case when I 
> had 0.35.10 installed.  In fact, then the finder would return a list 
> of AFS cells in a few seconds.  I know I can just go back to using the 
> old version, but I was wondering if any of you had any insight into 
> why this might be happening all of the sudden.  Listing /afs in the 
> terminal even seems to hang.  Anything I should look for?
>
> thanks
>
> Aaron
>
>
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