cachefilesd.ko missing in FC11

Albert Graham agraham at g-b.net
Sat Jul 25 00:45:57 UTC 2009


On 07/23/2009 01:54 PM, Albert Graham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The init script for /etc/init.d/cachefilesd states:
>
>         echo -n $"Starting $PROG: "
>
>         # Load the cachefiles module if needed
>         [ -x "$MODPROBE" ] && {
>                 if ! /sbin/lsmod | grep cachefiles > /dev/null ; then
>                          $MODPROBE cachefiles $MODPROBE_ARGS || exit 1
>                 fi
>         }
>
>
> This implies there is a kernel modules called cachefiles.ko ? which 
> does not exist
>
> # service cachefilesd start
> Starting cachefilesd: FATAL: Module cachefiles not found.
>
> The  file called /sbin/cachefilesd is the userspace side of things 
> that relies on /proc/fs/cachefiles which I assume would be created by 
> the kernel module - if it existed ?
>
> /sbin/cachefilesd -dns
> Unable to open /proc/fs/cachefiles: errno 2 (No such file or directory)
>
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Albert.
>
>
>
>

It seems that this is an existing bug outstanding since 2007 (Fedora 8)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=411051

Someone should probability remove the RPM from the Fedora repo as 
suggested in the  bug report.






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