[OpenAFS] libafs: falsely claims to have parameter sys_call_table_addr

William John Murray w.j.murray@rl.ac.uk
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:06:50 +0100


Amar P. Patel wrote:

> I get the error:
> libafs: falsely claims to have parameter sys_call_table_addr
> Failed to load AFS client, not starting AFS services.
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> yum install kernel-smp-devel
> yum install ncurses-devel
>
> wget 
> http://dl.openafs.org/dl/openafs/candidate/1.4.1-rc10/openafs-1.4.1-rc10-src.tar.gz 
>
> mv openafs-1.4.1-rc10-src.tar.gz /usr/src
> cd /usr/src
> tar zxvf openafs-1.4.1-rc10-src.tar.gz
> cd openafs-1.4.1-rc10
> ./configure 
> --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp-i686/ \
> --prefix=/usr \
> --sysconfdir=/etc \
> --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
> --localstatedir=/var/lib \
> --enable-supergroups \
> --enable-largefile-fileserver \
> --enable-debug \
> --enable-transarc-paths
>
> make
> make install
>
> cd /usr/src/openafs-1.4.1-rc10/src/libafs/
> cp -rp MODLOAD-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-SP/ /usr/vice/etc/modload
> /etc/init.d/afs start
>
> Amar
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  Hi Amar,
            There is a kernel fix needed, as I has been mentioned 
already. But the easiest thing is
to upgrade to the latest FC5 kernel, which does not need it.
       Bill