[OpenAFS] afsd: Error -1 in basic initialization

[Benjamin P Myers]

The solution was that SuSE has packaged openafs-1.2.8 for 8.2.  The sourc=
e rpm=20
(which includes some patches) builds fine on 8.1. Anyway thanks for your=20
help, Derrick. It got me headed in the right direction.

-Ben

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15:39, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Benjamin P Myers wrote:
> > > do you have an old module being loaded somehow? if not, then i gues=
s 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 us=
ed
> > on this system. I put
> >
> >         if(error =3D=3D -1)
> >         {
> >                 perror("syscall()");
> >         }
> >
> > after the syscall() in afsd.c. it seems that every syscall() returns =
-1.=20
> > I saw some warnings about 'major' and 'minor' being redefined when th=
e
> > 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 l=
ike
> > this:
>
> []
>
> > recompiled (no warnings), tried the new module, but had the same prob=
lem.
> >  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.