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Madhusudan Singh

2005-08-02, 2:51 am

I just created a deb package from openafs-module-source for my kernel and it
installed cleanly. openafs.ko is even listed
under /lib/modules/2.6.12.3-name/fs/.

However modprobe openafs fails :

# modprobe openafs
FATAL: Module openafs not found.

I am sure I am missing something basic. How do I get the kernel to stop
pretending that the module does not exist ?
stunnet@gmail.com

2005-08-02, 7:47 am

list the modules using lsmod to see if your module is installed!

--Ravindra

Andreas Janssen

2005-08-02, 7:47 am

Hello

Madhusudan Singh (<spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> ) wrote:

> I just created a deb package from openafs-module-source for my kernel
> and it installed cleanly. openafs.ko is even listed
> under /lib/modules/2.6.12.3-name/fs/.
>
> However modprobe openafs fails :
>
> # modprobe openafs
> FATAL: Module openafs not found.
>
> I am sure I am missing something basic. How do I get the kernel to
> stop pretending that the module does not exist ?


If modprobe cannot find the module this probably is because the module
isn't listed in the modules.dep file. Check
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep to see if the module is there. If it
isn't, run depmod to rebuild the file.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Madhusudan Singh

2005-08-02, 5:47 pm

Andreas Janssen wrote:

> If modprobe cannot find the module this probably is because the module
> isn't listed in the modules.dep file. Check
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep to see if the module is there. If it
> isn't, run depmod to rebuild the file.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>


Thanks. That worked.

Now, I get a cryptic message upon starting openafs-client :

nanak:/# /etc/init.d/openafs-client start
Starting AFS services: afsd: some file missing or bad in /etc/openafs
afsd.

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