[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.2.9 Not Working with RH Kernel

[Derek Atkins]

You'll need to upgrade to 1.2.9 to get support for the 2.4.20 kernel.

-derek

"Computers in Medicine" <pittmed@pittmed.pitt.edu> writes:

> 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.
> 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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