* John Tang Boyland [2015-11-09 07:22:20 -0600]: > My speaking of "precise" was wrong. Sorry for wasting people's time > with that. Since I wrote the email, I've been informed that the machine > is running Debian Squeeze. That is not supposed to EOL until 2/2016 > (according to my limited understanding), but if I understand you > correctly openafs-1.6.15 doesn't work on this old kernel.
I didn't say that. (It may or may not be true: I haven't tested.) All I said was that your kernel was old *for Ubuntu precise*. Debian squeeze (like Ubuntu lucid) is another story. > So: the advice is to upgrade the kernel. No, the advice is to build .deb packages of OpenAFS for squeeze; either version 1.6.15 or some older version with security patches (and any other patches you are interested in) applied on top. Ben actually suggested the version in wheezy-security as a starting point; that's indeed more likely to backport cleanly to squeeze. My suggestion to upgrade the kernel was based on your statement that the system was running Ubuntu precise; it does not apply if you're running squeeze. > Apparently that's not an > option (on our end) until the semester break. Meanwhile, I'll just try > to stop using AFS on this machine. > > Best regards, > John > > ] * John Tang Boyland [2015-11-05 20:57:10 -0600]: > ] > We're trying to update our "precise" ubuntu systems with > ] > openafs-1.6.15. [...] > ] > > ] > I tried to build from source (./configure > --with-linux-kernel-packaging) > ] > with simple "make; make install". The new kernel module > ] > was placed in /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/extra/openafs/openafs.ko > ] > ] 2.6.32 was the kernel for Ubuntu lucid (10.04); precise (12.04) uses > ] kernel 3.2.0 (or newer, if you install one of the backported kernels from > ] later releases; 3.13.0 would be the obvious choice at the moment). 10.04 > ] reached EOL (even for server installations) a few months ago, which means > ] that the package repository may soon disappear from ftp.ubuntu.com. (It > ] was still there a few minutes ago, though.) If you really need to continue > ] supporting 10.04, make sure you've got your own mirror. > ] > ] If you've been running precise with a lucid kernel, you may want to try > ] upgrading the kernel. > ] > ] > Are there some instructions I should be following rather than > ] > http://wiki.openafs.org/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource/ ? > ] > ] I'll second Ben Kaduk's suggestion to build the Debian packages. I normally > ] use pbuilder so that there are no extraneous packages present during the > ] build that could affect the output of ./configure, but if you don't have > ] the time to set that up Ben's recipe will do. There may be issues with the > ] version of debhelper (openafs 1.6.15 requires debhelper >= 9, Ubuntu lucid > ] has version 7.4) but those can be solved. (I see I've got a lucid backport > ] of debhelper 9.20120115ubuntu3 in my private repo; probably a trivial one.) > ] Occasionally one may need to tweak a source package when backporting, but > ] for openafs there is rarely much to do. Version 1.6.15-1 will build as is > ] on Ubuntu trusty; I haven't had the need to try older releases. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
