[OpenAFS] Problem with starting up Open AFS.

[Madhusudan Singh]

Hi

	I am sorry for this long delay in my response. I got busy with
quite a few other things and did not get the time to look at the
installation.

	1.1.1 RPM's are the ones that I used and those gave the problems I
described earlier. So, I downloaded the source and ran ./configure.

	It choked up at the following error :

"
	checking whether byte order is known at compile time... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking your OS... configure: warning: No usable linux headers found at
/usr/src/linux so disabling kernel module
linux
checking your AFS sysname... configure: error: Couldn't guess your Linux
version. Please use the --with-afs-sysname option to configure an AFS
sysname.
"

A subsequent uname -r yields :
[root@guo openafs-1.1.1]# uname -r
2.4.2-2

I do not know why it is unable to guess my Linux version.

I could go back and pass the option that it asks for, but I suspect that
the problem is deeper than that. I have heard of kernel - openafs mismatch
problems. What do you suggest I should do next ?

Thanks,

Madhusudan Singh.




On 31 Jul 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:

> I suggest that you use the 1.1.1 RPMs, not the 1.0.4 RPM.
>
> -derek
>
> Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >     Thanks for your response !
> >     Do you suggest that I compile AFS from source then ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Madhusudan Singh.
> >
> >
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> >
> > > Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> writes:
> > >
> > > > [root@guo /root]# insmod /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-`uname -r`.o
> > > > /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.2-2.o: unresolved symbol
> > > > generic_file_mmap_R807
> > > > a06f4
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > This is a known problem with the 1.0.4 RPMs on RH 7.1.  The module
> > > wasn't built properly against all of the Red Hat kernels.  The 1.1.1
> > > RPMs should be better, however it still have not been fully fixed,
> > > yet.
> > >
> > > > Next, I tried to run /usr/vice/etc/afsd.
> > >
> > > You cannot run AFSD until you successfully load libafs.  The errors
> > > you got from afsd are absolutely expected.
> > >
> > > -derek
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> > >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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