OK, I just fixed this. Instead of going through my auth server, I went directly to bell labs auth server, and now I can login fine. Probably the lack of the line:
auth=sources.cs.bell-labs.com authdom=outside.plan9.bell-labs.com in my auth server's /lib/ndb/local was the source of the problem there, but I bypassed this with hard-set settings, in any case. TL;DR: I can boot into sources /plan9 repo now. Best, ak On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Akshat Kumar <aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote: > My local KenFS server went down quite badly > today, with the error: > > cwio: write induced dump error - r cache > > and then the boot floppy I made for it, can't seem > to boot the box into KenFS. The server serves as > my local root fs for all my terminals, cpus, virtual > machines, etc.. So these things don't have a root > fs either. > > In order to start to repair things, I need an ad-hoc > Plan 9 fs to boot into. I have an account on sources > and tried using that, but as soon as my auth server > supplies sources my uname/passwd, my terminal > errors out during boot: > > version...authentication failed (auth_proxy write fd: file does not > exist), trying mount anyways > boot: mount /: fossil authCheck: auth protocol not finished > panic: boot process died: unknown > panic: boot process died: unknown > dumpstack disabled > cpu0: exiting > > However, from within Plan 9, I can srv & mount sources > with my account, just fine. > > SO... is there is any way to use sources with rootdir=/plan9 > as the root filesystem for Plan 9 to boot into? > > > Best, > ak >
