[OpenAFS] Problem with starting up Open AFS.

[Madhusudan Singh]

Hi,
	It might sound like a dumb (and irrelevant) question. I have kernel-headers-2.4.2-2
installed. How do I fix this then ?

Thanks,

Madhusudan Singh.



On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> > 	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.
>
> it uses kernel headers to guess. it should fall back to uname if it can't
> find those. it does suggest a way for you to set one, though, and you
> should do that. also, if you have no kernel headers, you'll fail to
> compile a kernel module, and what you build won't be especially useful
> anyhow.
>
> -D
>
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