[OpenAFS] Help with Debian Kernel Module for AFS

[Matt Weatherford]

Hello All,

Im trying to get kernel modules built for my debian kernel-2.4.20-3-686
and when I get everything set up correctly and build the kernel package
via the commands:

   make-kpkg configure
   make-kpkg modules_image

it compiles everything and generates a .deb package that
installs when I do a dpkg -i openafs-modules-yadda.deb)
into:

   /lib/modules/2.4.20/fs/openafs.mp.o

Additional notes: (are these things to worry about?)

   - This is the wrong directory, so I have to copy it over to
     /lib/modules/2.4.20-3-686/fs/openafs.mp.o)

   - depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in 
/lib/modules/2.4.20-3-686/fs/openafs.mp.o (this comes up after
I copy the file to another directory)


Then I go to install the openafs-client, and it wants to UNINSTALL
the package I just installed.

Ok, so now I've got the openafs-client and the openafs.mp.o files
both on my system (the .o file didnt get removed by apt cause I
copied it to another dir)

I start up openafs-client and now it complains that I dont have
"openafs.o"

But I just built the module, and its called "openafs.mp.o"!
Why this discrepency?

Im not using a mulitprocessor machine... is there something possibly
in my kernel config that causes this .mp version to be built?
And I do need to eventually support multiprocessor machines,
how can I get openafs-client to grab the right module in that
case?

I assume I need the openafs module for running both an AFS client
and a server - and that is the same module... ?

Im really stuck here. I've been thru all the docs. Can anyone
enlighten me?

Thanks,

Matt

BTW: If I copy openafs.mp.o to openafs.o, "/etc/init.d/openafs-client 
start" dumps a ton of unresolved symbols and says it cant start AFS.

Trace:


lucy:/usr/src# dpkg -i 
openafs-modules-2.4.20_1.2.3final2-6+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package openafs-modules-2.4.20.
(Reading database ... 42539 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openafs-modules-2.4.20 (from 
openafs-modules-2.4.20_1.2.3final2-6+10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ...
Setting up openafs-modules-2.4.20 (1.2.3final2-6+10.00.Custom) ...

lucy:/usr/src#
lucy:/usr/src# depmod
lucy:/usr/src#
lucy:/usr/src#
lucy:/usr/src# mkdir /lib/modules/2.4.20-3-686/fs
lucy:/usr/src# cp /lib/modules/2.4.20/fs/openafs.mp.o 
/lib/modules/2.4.20-3-686/fs/openafs.mp.o
lucy:/usr/src# depmod
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-3-686/fs/openafs.mp.o
lucy:/usr/src#

lucy:/usr/src#
lucy:/usr/src#
lucy:/usr/src# apt-get install openafs-client
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   openafs-modules-2.4.20
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   openafs-client
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 201  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1522kB of archives. After unpacking 2740kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 42543 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openafs-modules-2.4.20 ...
Selecting previously deselected package openafs-client.
(Reading database ... 42539 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openafs-client (from .../openafs-client_1.2.9-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up openafs-client (1.2.9-2) ...
AFS module /lib/modules/2.4.20-3-686/fs/openafs.o does not exist. Not 
starting AFS.
Please consider building kernel modules using instructions in
/usr/share/doc/openafs-client/README.modules

lucy:/usr/src#


-- 
Matt Weatherford
Unix Administration
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
102B Savery Hall, Box 353412
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA, 98195         206-685-5346
http://www.csde.washington.edu