[OpenAFS] afsd: Error -1 in basic initialization

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Benjamin P Myers wrote:

> >
> > do you have an old module being loaded somehow? if not, then i guess i
> > have to look for how it might be miscompiled.
>
> I'm pretty sure that i have a current module; i can see the AFSOP_BASIC_INIT
> in afs_call.c and 1.2.9a is the only version i've used on this system. I put
>
>         if(error == -1)
>         {
>                 perror("syscall()");
>         }
>
> after the syscall() in afsd.c. it seems that every syscall() returns -1.  I
> saw some warnings about 'major' and 'minor' being redefined when the module
> was built.  I commented out the definitions in the offending header file
> (/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kdev_t.h) so now it looks like this:

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>
> recompiled (no warnings), tried the new module, but had the same problem.  How
> else could the module have been miscompiled?

not through any fault of yours. it would be a bad ifdef combination, if
it's what i had in mind.