[OpenAFS] Problem with Redhat 7.2 and openafs 1.2.3

[Zhi-Wei Lu]

Hi all, I have found out part of my problem.

> Dear AFS gurus,
> 
> I have recently upgrade my redhat 7.1 machine to redhat 7.2 with the
> latest stock kernel of 2.4.9-21
> 
> uname -r: 2.4.9-21 and it is a i686 machine.
> 
> I have upgraded to  openafs 1.2.2a from previous version and later upgraded 
> again to 1.2.3. I am having some problems with the afs.  
> 
> (1) Right after the upgrade, it will fail to use the cache properly.
> in /var/vice/cache (which is on a ext2 partition), and /afs will not mount.
> Reboot the machine will also fail and I have to push the reset button.
> 
> (2) After remove the /var/vice/cache contents, it will initialize the cache
> and /afs mounted okay.  However, if I try to copy a large number of files
> to the afs space, afs will failed to worked properly, even though /afs is 
> still mounted.

I have found out the the file system housed the cache was badly corrupted,
which caused all the trouble.  The system didn't see this and failed to start
fsck automatically on this file system.  After I clean the file system,
afs works just fine.  I am using libafs-2.4.9-21-i386.o module.
> 
> (3) If I try to manually load the module
> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.9-13-i686.o
> I will get a whole lot of "unresolved symbol" messages and the following 
> message:libafs-2.4.9-21-i686.o: Note: modules without a GPL compatible license cannot use GPLONLY_ symbols

My system is an i686 system, it still fails to load libafs-2.4.9-21-i686.o  
though.  As I mentioned before, afs will choose libafs-2.4.9-21-i386.o, it works 
fine now.

Thank Derek Atkins, Derek J Brashea, and Luigi Benussi for helpful messages.

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Zhi-Wei Lu 		
CIPIC (Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing)
UC Davis 	  	Phone:	(530)-752-0494
Davis, CA 95616		Fax:   	(530)-752-8894



-- 
Zhi-Wei Lu 		
CIPIC (Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing)
UC Davis 	  	Phone:	(530)-752-0494
Davis, CA 95616		Fax:   	(530)-752-8894