[OpenAFS] Serious problem upon rebuild

[Derek Atkins]

Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> writes:

> Found libafs-2.4.19-LAPTOP-CUSTOM-17SEP2002.o from SymTable... Loading...
> Failed to load AFS client, not starting AFS services.
> 
> That is the oops. It puzzles me that I did not get this message during the
> course of a normal bootup.

Read my lips: That is not an oops.

Trust me, you would know an Oops if you saw one.  It was spew a page
of crap and start with the string "Oops".

> In what ways can a kernel not be "supported" in a file system daemon such
> as afs, even after compiling for that kernel ? Just curious.

afsd is a kernel module.  Just because it compiles does not imply it
will work.  If the kernel changed in such a way that libafs is not
properly initializing certain data structures, it could cause a kernel
to hang or die, even though the module "compiles" without an error.

As I said: downgrade to 2.4.18, which is known to work with AFS...

There is nothing else that you (or I) can do.

Have a good night.

-derek

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