HI Paul,
Could it be something obvious like you didn't install kernel headers? I
hate RedHat kernels, I would much rather pull them off kernel.org, I can
build those much easier than trying to figure out:
1 - how redhat has packaged stuff
2 - how they configured it
Greg
On 6 Jul 2001, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> Date: 06 Jul 2001 20:01:46 -0400
> From: Paul D. Smith <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>
> To: cciug@rational.com
> Subject: [cciug] Need a RH 7.1 kernel-source-2.4.2 RPM...
>
>
> *Sigh*.
>
> Does anyone have a kernel-source 2.4.2 RPM they can send me or point me
> to, that can actually be unpacked?
>
> The only ones I can find are the kernel-source-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm files
> (see, for example, rpmfind.net), and these are broken: when I try to
> unpack them there're large numbers of files missing and I get lots of
> errors (like, the /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/include directory doesn't exist!!)
>
> So, I saw something here earlier about how some of the source RPMs was
> broken and you should get the updated version; I went to the Red Hat
> 7.1 updates site but there is no 2.4.2 RPM there at all, only 2.4.3-12.
>
> Well, I tried that one but it doesn't work:
>
> # uname -r
> 2.4.3-12
>
> # insmod /lib/modules/fs/mvfs.o
> /lib/modules/fs/mvfs.o: init_module: Invalid argument
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>
> # tail -3 /var/log/messages
> Jul 6 19:58:49 lemming kernel: Structure_check error for struct file_operations. MVFS expected 68, got 72
> Jul 6 19:58:49 lemming kernel: Structure_check error for struct super_block. MVFS expected 500, got 524
> Jul 6 19:58:49 lemming kernel: ERROR: MVFS detected 2 structure size mismatches
>
>
> Soooooo... help!
>
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