[OpenAFS] Problem with starting up Open AFS.

[Jan Hrabe]

On Saturday 28 July 2001 09:14 pm, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> Hi
>     I get the following response :
> [root@guo /root]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ide-cd                 26848   0  (autoclean)
> cdrom                  27232   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
> autofs                 11264   1  (autoclean)
> 3c59x                  25344   1  (autoclean)
> cs4232                  3440   0
> ad1848                 17904   0  [cs4232]
> uart401                 6768   0  [cs4232]
> sound                  62688   0  [cs4232 ad1848 uart401]
> soundcore               4464   5  [sound]
> usb-uhci               20720   0  (unused)
> usbcore                49664   1  [usb-uhci]
>
> AFS kernel module is thus not loaded.
>
> Jan Hrabe wrote:
> > To fix it, you can create a symbolic link with the name correctly
> > matching your kernel version (use 'uname -a' to find out which).
> > I would recommend using the latest OpenAFS version, though.
> > I think this has been fixed in it (certainly the make process was,
> > I am not sure about the RPMs).
>
> My kernel version is 2.4.2-2. Where is this symbolic link supposed to be
> created ?
>
> I used the following rpm's :
> [root@guo /root]# rpm -q --all | grep "openafs"
> openafs-kernel-1.0.4-24.2
> openafs-client-1.0.4-24.2
> openafs-1.0.4-24.2
>
> These were the latest ones on the website for RH Linux 7.1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Madhusudan Singh.

I think version 1.1.1 packaged for RH 7.1 is available at
http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.1.1.html
so I would try that first. 

The module is usually located in /usr/vice/etc/modload
but the packaged version may place it somewhere else,
I am not sure. You can check the startup script
/etc/rc.d/init.d/afs to see where it's taking it from.
It will be likely looking for file libafs-2.4.2-2.o (on a
single processor machine). When you run the afs script
from the command line, it should complain about what
exactly it cannot find. 

Good luck.
Honza