[OpenAFS] Re: dkms with openafs
Yonggang Hu
gottoomanyaccounts@gmail.com
Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:40:24 -0500
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Yonggang Hu
> <gottoomanyaccounts@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to get dkms-openafs work?
>
> When I wrote it, I got it to work by installing the rpm, but I make no
> promise that nothing changed.
>
I installed it and it worked. But it failed to work after I upgraded to a
new kernel, I mean it didn't automatically work, maybe there is something I
need to do but I don't know.
> > I am under Fedora 9, openafs
> > 1.4.7, using the yum repository from official openafs.org. With
> dkms-openafs
> > installed, I would expect it will automatically build the corresponding
> > kernel module when I upgrade to a new Linux kernel. But everytime there
> is a
> > new kernel, openafs client doesn't work because there is no openafs kmod.
> Do
> > I need to manually use dkms to build against the new kernel? If so, would
> > anyone tell me how I do that?
>
> The dkms init script caused it to build a module in my Fedora 9 test
> install, which alas I don't have anymore.
>
Where is the module located in your system? Are you saying the dkms-openafs
will automatically build the kernel module, and then I need to manually
install the module? Sorry, I never understand how the dkms-openafs is
supposed to work, I haven't found any documentation about it so far.
Thanks.
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Derrick Brashear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shadow@gmail.com">shadow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Yonggang Hu<br>
<<a href="mailto:gottoomanyaccounts@gmail.com">gottoomanyaccounts@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi List,<br>
><br>
> Does anyone know how to get dkms-openafs work?<br>
<br>
</div>When I wrote it, I got it to work by installing the rpm, but I make no<br>
promise that nothing changed.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>I installed it and it worked. But it failed to work after I upgraded to a new kernel, I mean it didn't automatically work, maybe there is something I need to do but I don't know.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I am under Fedora 9, openafs<br>
> 1.4.7, using the yum repository from official <a href="http://openafs.org" target="_blank">openafs.org</a>. With dkms-openafs<br>
> installed, I would expect it will automatically build the corresponding<br>
> kernel module when I upgrade to a new Linux kernel. But everytime there is a<br>
> new kernel, openafs client doesn't work because there is no openafs kmod. Do<br>
> I need to manually use dkms to build against the new kernel? If so, would<br>
> anyone tell me how I do that?<br>
<br>
</div>The dkms init script caused it to build a module in my Fedora 9 test<br>
install, which alas I don't have anymore.<br>
</blockquote></div>Where is the module located in your system? Are you saying the dkms-openafs will automatically build the kernel module, and then I need to manually install the module? Sorry, I never understand how the dkms-openafs is supposed to work, I haven't found any documentation about it so far.<br>
<br>Thanks.<br><br><br>
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