[Pkg-netatalk-devel] Bug#1051103: netatalk: Unknown error: 211 from macOS when trying to mount in 3.1.15~ds-2 or later

[Daniel Markstedt]

------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, September 2nd, 2023 at 12:18 PM, David Gilman <davidgilman1 at gmail.com> wrote:


>
>
> Package: netatalk
> Version: 3.1.15~ds-2
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: davidgilman1 at gmail.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> After the update from 3.1.15~ds-1 to 3.1.15~ds-2 any attempt to mount an
> exported AFP share from macOS results in "Unknown error: 211" on the Mac
> side. This was not fixed in 3.1.15~ds-3.
>
> I was able to confirm the regression by downgrading from -3 to -2 to -1
> on the same setup to find that it was working on -1 and not -2.
>
> Note that my Debian side configuration is a bit of a monster, I am
> pinning netatalk from sid, but am otherwise on bookworm. The Mac is
> running macOS 13.5.1.
>
> I have attached some hopefully relevant system logs from the Mac.
>

Hi David,

Thank you for reporting the issue! I cannot reproduce the issue despite having the exact same environment (Bookworm pinned to Sid netatalk, macOS 13.5.1) so please help me work through a few troubleshooting steps.

Reading the changelog between ds-1 and ds-2, the only obvious functional difference is that we did away with the pam.d configuration override. I shouldn't have made a difference but you never know.

To understand what's happening on the netatalk side when macOS throws that error, would you be able to turn on debug level logs, and then capture syslog as the error is happening? That's the only sure way to know exactly what it gets hung on up.

For this purpose, please add or modify the log level line of the Global section of /etc/netatalk/afp.conf as per the below and then restart netatalk.

log level = default:debug

Also, it would be handy to know the contents of your /etc/netatalk/afp.conf and /etc/pam.d/netatalk files. Please scrub any private information as needed.

Sincerely,
Daniel