[OpenAFS] Problem with starting up Open AFS.

Madhusudan Singh chhabra@eecs.umich.edu
Wed, 8 Aug 2001 16:44:46 -0400 (EDT)


Hi,
	I did not. But now I installed the source rpm. My /usr/src
listing is (now) :

[root@guo src]# ls -l
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Aug  9 00:36 linux-2.4 -> linux-2.4.2
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Aug  9 00:36 linux-2.4.2
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Jul 26 20:35 redhat

./configure --with-kernel-headers=/usr/src/linux-2.4

yields :
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.


What could be wrong ?

Thanks,

Madhusudan Singh.



On 8 Aug 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Do you have the kernel-source RPM installed?
>
> -derek
>
> Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> writes:
>
> > 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
> > > > > --
> > > > >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> > > > >        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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