I am a BSD refugee who is new to AFS on RHEL, so please excuse this
question if it is dumb.
I installed a new RHEL6 box and the kernel version is:
2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64
so the kmod rpm refuses to install:
(2/2): kmod-openafs-1.6.13-1.2.6.32_504.30.3.el6.x86_64. | 320 kB 00:00
On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 09:04 -0500, John Hascall wrote:
I installed a new RHEL6 box and the kernel version is:
2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64
Prebuilt kernel modules aren't always available. If you install
dkms-openafs instead of a kmod-openafs then the system will (try to)
rebuild the kernel module
Hi John,
kmod's are fun like that. Each kmod RPM is linked to a specific tuple of
kernel and openafs version. Installing a kmod for an older kernel version
will try to install the older kernel and fail as you are seeing. You need
to find/compile and install the
Thanks, I will give that a whirl.
John
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de
wrote:
On 07 Aug 2015, at 16:04, John Hascall j...@iastate.edu wrote:
I am a BSD refugee who is new to AFS on RHEL, so please excuse this
question if it is dumb.
I
Success!
So that this is documented should anyone else find themselves following
this path, I also seem to have needed to install these packages:
perl-devel
perl-ExtUtils-Embed
and the built modules ended up in the /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 directory.
Thanks,
John
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at
On 07 Aug 2015, at 16:04, John Hascall j...@iastate.edu wrote:
I am a BSD refugee who is new to AFS on RHEL, so please excuse this question
if it is dumb.
I installed a new RHEL6 box and the kernel version is:
2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64
so the kmod rpm refuses to install:
(2/2):
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, John Hascall j...@iastate.edu wrote:
and the built modules ended up in the /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 directory.
Just as a side note, you do not need to, and most likely should not build
RPMs as root. They build fine as an unprivileged user. There have been
