novell client install on Suse Pro 9.3 x86_64

Greetings,

I was able to install the NCL on my laptop running OpenSuse 10 (thanks to
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16101.html). But when I went
to try and install it on my main desktop machine, it doesn't seem to
install the novfs kernel module. My desktop runs Suse Pro 9.3 on an
x86_64 processor.

Here's the relevant excerpt from the installer output:

Stopping novell novfs daemon...
ERROR: Module novfs does not exist in /proc/modules
Starting novell novfs daemon...
FATAL: Module novfs not found.
FATAL: Module novfs not found.
mount: unknown filesystem type 'novfs'
Unable to Open Control Interface
start_daemon: exit status of parent of /opt/novell/ncl/bin/novfsd: 255
failed
[ncl_control] Error: 'novfsd restart' failed with error code 7

And when I tried to manually add the module:
# modprobe novfs
FATAL: Module novfs not found.

and running both of the following returned no results
# find /lib -name "*nov*" -print
# find /lib64 -name "*nov*" -print

There were no other errors from the installer script. If it's a problem
with the 64-bit proc, then I'm hoping I can just recompile the source for
the module manually, but can't seem to find that anywhere. If it's
something else, than any advice would be welcome.

Thanks.
Seth

--
Seth Galitzer sgsax@ksu.edu
Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax
Dept. of Plant Pathology
Kansas State University

Seth Galitzer wrote:

> I was able to install the NCL on my laptop running OpenSuse 10 (thanks to
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16101.html). But when I went
> to try and install it on my main desktop machine, it doesn't seem to
> install the novfs kernel module. My desktop runs Suse Pro 9.3 on an
> x86_64 processor.

1.) Is there a km_novfs in the x86_64 packages?
2.) Did you install that?

--
Ruurd

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:01:03 +0000, R.F. Pels wrote:

> Seth Galitzer wrote:
>
>> I was able to install the NCL on my laptop running OpenSuse 10 (thanks to
>> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16101.html). But when I went
>> to try and install it on my main desktop machine, it doesn't seem to
>> install the novfs kernel module. My desktop runs Suse Pro 9.3 on an
>> x86_64 processor.
>
> 1.) Is there a km_novfs in the x86_64 packages?
> 2.) Did you install that?

There doesn't seem to be a km_novfs for 9.3, only 10.0. I did finally
find a document of "known issues" for the NCL. It said specifically that
the client should not be installed on 64-bit systems. If this is still
the case, I'd like to get in touch with the engineers working on this so I
can provide some help.

Seth

--
Seth Galitzer sgsax@ksu.edu
Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax
Dept. of Plant Pathology
Kansas State University

Seth Galitzer wrote:

> It said specifically that
> the client should not be installed on 64-bit systems.

That is still the case. There is no build for the 64 bit system yet.

"Seth Galitzer" <sgsax@ksu.edu> wrote in message
newsan.2005.12.19.23.04.36.145377@ksu.edu...
> Greetings,
>
> I was able to install the NCL on my laptop running OpenSuse 10 (thanks to
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16101.html). But when I went
> to try and install it on my main desktop machine, it doesn't seem to
> install the novfs kernel module. My desktop runs Suse Pro 9.3 on an
> x86_64 processor.
>
> Here's the relevant excerpt from the installer output:
>
> Stopping novell novfs daemon...
> ERROR: Module novfs does not exist in /proc/modules
> Starting novell novfs daemon...
> FATAL: Module novfs not found.
> FATAL: Module novfs not found.
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'novfs'
> Unable to Open Control Interface
> start_daemon: exit status of parent of /opt/novell/ncl/bin/novfsd: 255
> failed
> [ncl_control] Error: 'novfsd restart' failed with error code 7
>
> And when I tried to manually add the module:
> # modprobe novfs
> FATAL: Module novfs not found.
>
> and running both of the following returned no results
> # find /lib -name "*nov*" -print
> # find /lib64 -name "*nov*" -print
>
> There were no other errors from the installer script. If it's a problem
> with the 64-bit proc, then I'm hoping I can just recompile the source for
> the module manually, but can't seem to find that anywhere. If it's
> something else, than any advice would be welcome.
>
> Thanks.
> Seth
>
> --
> Seth Galitzer sgsax@ksu.edu
> Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax
> Dept. of Plant Pathology
> Kansas State University
>

Just tplet everyone know thereis not suppose to be a 64 bit client till the
summer the earliest.

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:03:35 +0000, Rick Bousquet wrote:

>
> Just tplet everyone know thereis not suppose to be a 64 bit client till the
> summer the earliest.

Argh. Well that kinda bites. I'll be watching out for this one. Hey,
Novell, I love you guys but you keep tripping yourself up. How do you
expect to take over the world if you keep tripping over the doormat on
your way out? If any developers are watching this thread, please let me
know if you need to do some alpha/beta testing. The new linux client
works great on my i386 laptop, but I am chomping at the bit for it on my
desktop.

Seth

--
Seth Galitzer sgsax@ksu.edu
Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax
Dept. of Plant Pathology
Kansas State University