[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.2.9 Not Working with RH Kernel

[Computers in Medicine]

I was using OpenAFS 1.2.8 with Red Hat Linux 7.3 with no problems.  I
applied the 2.4.20-13.7 RPMs and rebuilt the kernel as follows

./configure --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-13.7
make
cp src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.4.20-13.7-SP/libafs-2.4.20-13.7.o
/usr/vice/etc/modload/
/usr/vice/etc/makesymtable /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.4.20-13.7.o

AFS did not start properly, so I obtained the 1.2.9 source and compiled
that.
It compiled fine, but AFS still won't start,  If I try to start it manually,
I get

[root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs start
Found libafs-2.4.20-13.7.o from SymTable... Loading...
Starting AFS services.....
afsd: All AFS daemons started.

and then it hangs.

If I try to start it from /etc/rc.d/init.d using chkconfig, here's what
winds up in dmesg, grepping for afs.

Starting AFS cache scan...found 0 non-empty cache files (0%).
libafs-2.4.20-13.7 tulip ide-cd cdrom usb-uhci usbcore ext3 jbd raid1
EIP is at afs_choose_cell_by_name [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0xf (2.4.20-13.7)
Process afsd (pid: 6314, stackpage=cc60f000)
Call Trace:   [<e09760a0>] afs_choose_cell_by_name [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x0
(0xc
c60fe3c))
[<e0975fe7>] afs_TraverseCells_nl [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x27 (0xcc60fe40))
[<e09760a0>] afs_choose_cell_by_name [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x0 (0xcc60fe54))
[<e0976046>] afs_TraverseCells [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x46 (0xcc60fe60))
[<e09760a0>] afs_choose_cell_by_name [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x0 (0xcc60fe64))
[<e0976164>] afs_GetCellByName [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x14 (0xcc60fe80))
[<e09760a0>] afs_choose_cell_by_name [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x0 (0xcc60fe84))
[<e09c5e53>] .rodata.str1.1 [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x153 (0xcc60fe98))
[<e0976314>] afs_GetPrimaryCell [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x14 (0xcc60fea0))
[<e097783b>] afs_CheckRootVolume [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x5b (0xcc60fec0))
[<e09777f4>] afs_CheckRootVolume [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x14 (0xcc60fed0))
[<e09b4930>] afs_osi_Sleep [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x160 (0xcc60ff40))
[<e0977741>] afs_Daemon [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x321 (0xcc60ffa0))
[<e09d97e8>] afs_initState [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x0 (0xcc60ffc0))
[<e09c7174>] .rodata.str1.1 [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x1474 (0xcc60ffc4))
[<e09b72c7>] afsd_thread [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x137 (0xcc60ffd0))
[<e09c7181>] .rodata.str1.1 [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x1481 (0xcc60ffd8))
[<e09b7190>] afsd_thread [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x0 (0xcc60ffe4))
[<e09b7190>] afsd_thread [libafs-2.4.20-13.7] 0x0 (0xcc60fff8))

Can anyone give me any suggestions about how to troubleshoot this?  Has
anyone else had this problem or been able to get OpenAFS 1.2.9 to work with
Red Hat 7.3 and kernel 2.4.29-13.7.  Has anyone been able to get it to work
with RH 9 and the current kernel, since I want to upgrade anyway, but first
would like to solve any problems unless I know upgrading will solve them.
Any help is greatly appreciated.