[OpenAFS] application error message with Windows XP

[Alan Wehmann]

This is a personal machine.  The interest in OpenAFS was its price.
IBM/Transarc AFS was out of my price range--particularly since my use
of AFS is work related.  Having work pay for it on this machine was an
argument I didn't think would succeed, or be justifiable.  When work
switched to OpenAFS file servers, then I got interested in the 1.3.64
OpenAFS client and installed it on this machine.  On the other hand,
my Windows 2000 Professional desktop at work has the IBM/Transarc AFS
client installed on it.

Stating this more succinctly, IBM/Transarc AFS was never installed on
this machine.

> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:28:52 -0400
> From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>
> Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
> 
> Sorry I missed that.  I added the contents of the PATH to the 
> afsd_init.log specifically so that mixed installations of OpenAFS
> and IBM/Transarc AFS on Windows could be detected.
> 
> This PATH entry was not created by OpenAFS; it was created by the
> installation of IBM/Transarc AFS on the machine.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman
> 
> 
> Alan Wehmann wrote:
> 
> > The problem turned out to be non-existant "IBM\AFS\etc." 
> > directories in the PATH environmental variable on my laptop.  When
> > I removed them and restarted the computer, the OpenAFS 1.3.71
> > client worked.
> > 
> > I don't know how those PATH entries got there.  Perhaps the
> > installer for the earlier version of the client (1.3.64) put them
> > there?
> > 
> > Below is the exchange that prompted this action.
> > 
> > <>This area didn't exist on my laptop.  I edited the PATH variable
> > <>and removed the entries with "\IBM\AFS\" in them.  After that, I
> > <>restarted the computer and the OpenAFS client 1.3.71 worked!
> > <>
> > <>Please thank the expert for suggesting this approach--even
> > <>although it was indirect.
> > <>
> > <>> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:03:11 -0500 (CDT)
> > <>> From: HelpDesk <AREmail@fnal.gov>
> > <>> Reply-to: HelpDesk <helpdesk@fnal.gov>
> > <>> X-Priority: 3
> > <>> 
> > <>> The expert has added the following information to your
> > <>> request.  Please review carefully as additional information
> > <>> may be requested.
> > <>> 
> > <>> To add additional information, visit http://helpdesk.fnal.gov
> > <>> 
> > <>> ___________________________________________________________________
> > <>> 
> > <>> Note To Requester: Hi Alan,
> > <>> 
> > <>> From your init log, it looks like the following is in your PATH:
> > <>> 
> > <>> C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\AFS\Client\Program
> > <>> 
> > <>> Does this area exist?  If so, can you rename the "IBM" folder
> > <>> and see if the problem may be that the wrong execs are getting
> > <>> called?
> > 

-- 
Alan Wehmann
wehmann@fnal.gov