[OpenAFS] Problem with installing

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 18 May 2001 09:50:23 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 18 May 2001, Tufan Sen wrote:

> >
> > > Then I used the RPMS for RedHat 7.1.
> > > When I try to start afs with "/etc/rc.d/init.d/afs start" I
> > got an error
> > > about the kernel module. I fixed it by copying the kernel
> > module with the
> > > correct name. (I added smp to the module name.) Then
> > everything worked fine
> > > until I tried to write a file.
> >
> > This is not a fix. a non-smp module is correctly named for use on a
> > non-smp system, and won't work on an smp system. You'll need
> > to compile a
> > module for your system, and there are reports it won't work with the
> > Redhat kernel in the SMP case, which I haven't verified.
> > OpenAFS 1.0.4 is
> > known to work on a 2.4.4 SMP (4 processor) system with a non-Alan-Cox
> > kernel.
> >
> 
> I tried to compile the kernel modules from openafs-kernel-source rpm for RH
> 7.1. I got the following error. "redhat.sh" is missing. Where can I get it?
> Or is there another way to compile the kernel modules ? Thanks for your
> helps.

Get openafs-1.0.4-24.2.src.rpm from the Redhat 7.1 directory in the 1.0.4
release area. These is not yet a direct link from the release page, you'll
need to look at "all files"