[Netatalk-admins] cnid_metad restarts over and over

[Eduardo F. <ef...@pr...>]

Hello everybody,

I haven't been able to find solution to my problem by googling it up,  
so I apologize if I'm duplicating this from a prior post which I  
didn't see.
I'm using gentoo linux and its package manager recently donwloaded  
netatalk 3.0 on two machines that were running netatalk 2.2.3. After  
experiencing the problems I will describe further down, I reverted the  
more mission critical machine to prior version of netatalk and kept  
version 3.0 on the other.

When I start netatalk, the cnid daemon does'nt come up and restarts  
itself over and over again.
It says also that Extended Attributes are not supported and that the  
volume is read only, which is new in this version, because in 2.2.3  
this is not the case.
What puzzels me most is the phrase 'no suitable network config' in the  
messages file.
After netatalk is started, no database can be found at its default  
location.
This machine is used as a Time Machine backup.

This is a chunk of  /var/log/messages inmediately after starting  
netatalk:

Sep 25 09:21:41 cronomachine start-stop-daemon: pam_unix(start-stop- 
daemon:session): session opened for user nobody by root(uid=0)
Sep 25 09:21:41 cronomachine netatalk[18861]: Netatalk AFP server  
starting
Sep 25 09:21:41 cronomachine cnid_metad[18864]: volume "TimeMachine"  
does not support Extended Attributes or read-only volume
Sep 25 09:21:41 cronomachine afpd[18863]: dsi_tcp_init: no suitable  
network config for TCP socket
Sep 25 09:21:41 cronomachine afpd[18863]: volume "TimeMachine" does  
not support Extended Attributes or read-only volume
Sep 25 09:21:41 cronomachine cnid_metad[18864]: tsockfd_create: no  
suitable network config localhost:4700
Sep 25 09:21:42 cronomachine netatalk[18861]: Restarting  
'cnid_metad' (restarts: 1)
Sep 25 09:21:42 cronomachine cnid_metad[18866]: volume "TimeMachine"  
does not support Extended Attributes or read-only volume
Sep 25 09:21:42 cronomachine cnid_metad[18866]: tsockfd_create: no  
suitable network config localhost:4700
Sep 25 09:21:43 cronomachine netatalk[18861]: Restarting  
'cnid_metad' (restarts: 2)
Sep 25 09:21:43 cronomachine cnid_metad[18867]: volume "TimeMachine"  
does not support Extended Attributes or read-only volume
Sep 25 09:21:43 cronomachine cnid_metad[18867]: tsockfd_create: no  
suitable network config localhost:4700
Sep 25 09:21:44 cronomachine netatalk[18861]: Restarting  
'cnid_metad' (restarts: 3)
Sep 25 09:21:44 cronomachine cnid_metad[18868]: volume "TimeMachine"  
does not support Extended Attributes or read-only volume
Sep 25 09:21:44 cronomachine cnid_metad[18868]: tsockfd_create: no  
suitable network config localhost:4700

This is the /etc/afp.conf file:

;
; Netatalk 3.x configuration file
;

[Global]
; Global server settings
hostname = cronomachine
uam list = uams_dhx.so uams_dhx2.so
uam path = /var/lib/netatalk/CNID
save password = no
advertise_ssh = yes

; [Homes]
basedir regex = /home

; [My AFP Volume]
; path = /path/to/volume

[TimeMachine]
path = /home/TimeMachine
appledouble = ea
valid user = backup
cnid scheme = dbd
time machine = yes



Any help in this matter will be highly appreciated.

Eduardo Frank