[OpenAFS] problem with openafs on a recompiled 2.4.20-8 kernel

[Derek Atkins]

Did you completely remove Red Hat's ksyms before you rebuilt your
kernel with a different configuration?

Were your kernel sources available when you rebuilt AFS?  Did
AFS find them?

-derek

Johann Cohen-Tanugi <johann.cohen@pi.infn.it> writes:

> Hi,
> 	I recompiled 2.4.20-8 in order to get acpi support on my laptop. Now I
> would like to get afs to work. I tried both the binary release and the
> sources that I recompiled using rpmbuild -bb 
> 
> 
> In both cases, I get the following:
> 
> [root@localhost redhat]# service afs start
> Hmm...  I can't seem to find an AFS kernel module suitable for your
> Linux
> kernel.  That means you will need to build or obtain a suitable module.
> The following information may be of some use in obtaining assistance:
> CPU Type:       1586.intel.2
> Linux version:  2.4.20-8 #7 Wed May 21 19:26:33 CEST 2003
> RedHat release: Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
> Symbol versions:
>   iget4      7b369432
>   iget4      7b369432
>   sock_create 7a0451b7
> Did not find matching module in SymTable
> Failed to load AFS client, not starting AFS services.
> 
> [root@localhost redhat]# insmod
> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.20-8-i586.o
> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.20-8-i586.o: unresolved symbol
> sock_release_R69bcec9f
> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.20-8-i586.o: unresolved symbol
> sock_create_R13178b72
> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.20-8-i586.o: unresolved symbol
> zone_table_R4b76a6ed
> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.20-8-i586.o: unresolved symbol
> sock_recvmsg_R1244a0c2
> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.20-8-i586.o: unresolved symbol
> sock_sendmsg_R57ce31c5
> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.20-8-i586.o:
> Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license
>       and it has unresolved symbols.  The module may be trying to access
>       GPLONLY symbols but the problem is more likely to be a coding or
>       user error.  Contact the module supplier for assistance, only they
>       can help you.
> 
> 
> 
> note that all the drivers fail with these types of messages. This one
> has the fewest....
> thanks for any  help.
> 
> Johann
> 
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