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. > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info