UNC Linux Users Group

[Matt McGrievy <mcgrievy AT email.unc.edu>]

Speaking of AFS -- has anyone had much success with running AFS 
applications under 64-bit Linux?  I have a faculty member running x86_64 
Fedora Core 4 on some of his workstations and we've had lots of problems 
getting apps to run out of AFS space.  It looks like most apps support 
i386_linux24 and i386_linux26, but there are very few (if any) for 
amd64.  We've been able to get the i386 versions of some things working 
(like Mathematica), but not others (InsightII, Felix, Matlab).  Our 
sysname value currently has i386_linux24, i386_linux26, amd64_linux24, 
and amd64_linux26.

Thanks,
Matt

Matthew Mauzy wrote:
> Works on RHEL4 systems as well.  The resulting openafs-kernel rpm will be 
> located in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686 (assuming you built on a i686).
>
> Then to install:
>
> rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/openafs-kernel-smp-1.4.0-'uname 
> -r'_1.i686.rpm
>
> --Matthew
> __________________________
> Matthew W. Mauzy
> UNIX Systems Architect
> Systems Group
> College of Arts & Sciences
> UNC Chapel Hill
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>
>
> --On Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:34 AM -0400 Adam Constabaris 
> <adamc AT unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > The problem this is designed to solve: you have an RPM-based system that
> > uses openafs, but you upgrade your kernel to a version that is not (yet)
> > included in the openafs.org openafs-kernel binary RPMS.
> >
> > This is designed to allow you to compile the kernel modules from the
> > SRPM from openafs.org; it doesn't address the rest of the configuration
> > issues, so it works best if you get openafs from openafs.org working,
> > and then reboot into your new kernel.
> >
> > I've only ever run this on Fedora Core 5!  I assume it would work on
> > other RedHat-related distros, and there's probably something .deb based
> > that does a similar trick.
> >
> > Note that since it uses the uname command, you'll need to be running the
> > target kernel at the time you execute the command.  You can, of course,
> > work your way around the problem by specifying the name of the targeted
> > kernel by hand, but this method seems more error-resistant.
> >
> > # rpmbuild --rebuild --target=`uname -m` openafs-1.4.1-fc5.1.src.rpm
> >
> > # rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/[arch]/openafs-kernel-1.4.1-[kernel
> > version]-[arch].rpm
> >
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Matt McGrievy
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Center for Bioinformatics, University of North Carolina
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