i believe we have one ppc64 machine running openafs.  the biggest deal
was to make sure that the binaries were built 64-bit.  the 32-bit
versions of the ucontext syscalls are broken/incomplete.

just based on your errors though it looks like the afs module isnt
loaded?

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:49:51 +0800
Ting-jen Yen <ye...@infowrap.com.tw> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   Has anyone successfully installed OpenAFS on RHEL5 machines with
> ppc64 arch? (Power6 CPU, virtualized by PowerVM).
>   I was using SRPMs from the OpenAFS site.  Rpmbuild showed some
> errors, and I have to specify to build userspace, modules, and
> authlibs packages, then modify the source, 'flock64' to 'flock' in
> src/afs/afs.h.  This way, I could build the RPMs, and install
> them.  However, even though the installation succeeded, I cannot start
> the client service.
> 
>   If I added options '-debug' and '-verbose' to afsd, it will show
> 
> 
> afsd: enabling dynamically allocated vcaches
> afsd: My home cell is 'mycell'
> ParseCacheInfoFile: Opening cache info file '/usr/vice/etc/cacheinfo'...
> ParseCacheInfoFile: Cache info file successfully parsed:
>         cacheMountDir: '/afs'
>         cacheBaseDir: '/usr/vice/cache' 
>         cacheBlocks: 100000
> afsd: cacheFiles autotuned to 3125 
> afsd: dCacheSize autotuned to 2000
> afsd: cacheStatEntries autotuned to 3000
> SScall(137, 28, 35)=-1 SScall(137, 28, 17)=-1 afsd: Forking rx listener
> daemon.
> SScall(137, 28, 48)=-1 afsd: Forking rx callback listener.
> SScall(137, 28, 0)=-1 afsd: Forking rxevent daemon.
> SScall(137, 28, 19)=-1 SScall(137, 28, 36)=-1 afsd: Error -1 in basic
> initialization.
> 
>   Anybody could help me with this?  I tried 1.4.7, 1.4.14, 1.5.78, and
> 1.6.0-pre1, and all with the same result.  Other machines with x86_64
> work fine.
> 

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