[Linux-cluster] Compile Issues

Eric Kerin eric at bootseg.com
Fri Jul 29 20:42:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 13:18 -0700, Jacob Liff wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> ATAL: Error inserting gfs (/lib/modules/2.6.12/kernel/fs/gfs/gfs.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> 
> dmesg output: 
> 
> gfs: Unknown symbol posix_acl_from_xattr
> gfs: Unknown symbol posix_acl_valid
> gfs: Unknown symbol posix_acl_permission
> gfs: Unknown symbol posix_acl_equiv_mode
> gfs: Unknown symbol posix_acl_chmod_masq
> gfs: Unknown symbol posix_acl_to_xattr
> gfs: Unknown symbol posix_acl_create_masq
> gfs: Unknown symbol posix_acl_clone
> 
> Looking at the source its linking against the correct headers for the
> functions.. and the functions do exist in the headers. 
> 
> Maybe I have not compiled someone into the kernel that I needed in
> order to make this work? Could I be trying to use this against the
> wrong kernel(Vanilla 2.6.12
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.12.3.tar.bz2 )? I
> have been trying to either compile modules or patch against most of
> the newer kernels for the last two days with no luck. Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
Most likely, you don't have CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL turned on in your
kernel.  It looks like you'll have to enable ACL support for ext2, ext3,
jfs, or reiser to be able to turn it on though.

Thanks,
Eric

> 




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