[OpenAFS] Openafs on RHEL5b1

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:23:44 -0400


Hi,

Quoting Jason Edgecombe <openafs@rampaginggeek.com>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just rebuilt and installed the openafs 1.4.2 rpms on RHEL5 beta 1..
> The RHEL4 RPMs complained about the wrond version of libc.

Not at all surprising...

> I'm pleased to report the following:
> *kinit and aklog worked and grabbed tokens
> * I was able to copy files to and from AFS
>
> Things seem to be working with the following oddities:
[snip]
>  10:openafs-kernel         ###########################################
> [ 83%]
> FATAL: Could not rename
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5/modules.dep.temp into
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5/modules.dep: Permission denied
> error: %post(openafs-kernel-1.4.2-2.6.17_1.2519.4.21.el5_1.i686)
> scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Hmm..  The scriptlet is only calling "/sbin/depmod -ae %{kernvers}"
What happens if you try by hand:

  /sbin/depmod -ae 2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5

> I did a "depmod -a" just for safety. selinux is enabled and enforcing.
>
> and the following:
> # /etc/init.d/openafs-client start
> Updating CellServDB:
> Updating SuidCells:
> Starting openafs-client: Found system call table at 0xc0616500 (pattern
> scan)
> Address 0xc0616500 is not writable.
> System call hooks will not be installed; proceeding anyway
> Starting AFS cache scan...found 0 non-empty cache files (0%).
> afsd: All AFS daemons started.
>
> Is this supposed to happen?

This output is supposed to happen, yes.  It looks like you have AFS up
and running.

> Sincerely,
> Jason Edgecombe

-derek

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