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Re: AFS won't start on Linux box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey L Goodell)
Sun Jul 1 10:15:57 2001
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
From: Geoffrey L Goodell <goodell@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Jul 2001 10:15:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:23:45 -0400"
Message-ID: <wdb8zi8ybty.fsf@tetrahedron.mit.edu>
I just encountered the same problem with an i586 system, actually. My
solution was to build a new module from the OpenAFS sources; it works
just fine now. If anyone is interested in grabbing it, I put a copy
in
/mit/goodell/pub/openafs/libafs-2.4.2-2.o
Geoff
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Hi, sorry I took so long. I think the problem is that the OpenAFS
> module doesn't work except on 686-class machines. Linux doesn't
> really believe in binary compatibility of modules (changing kernel
> patch versions, sub-architectures, or even kernel configuration
> options can cause module-visible function signatures to change), but
> until now it hadn't been a problem.
>
> We will probably do something about the problem, but I don't know
> when.
