Re: MOL on FC4

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:28 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 00:19 +0100, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> > It seems the tun.c is missing. For the 2.6 trees it should be a symlink
> > to $(KERNEL_SOURCE)/drivers/net/tun.c
> > 
> > You should check
> > 
> > a) whether the obj-ppc/build/src/netdriver/tun.c file exists and is a
> > symlink
> > b) if it is one, where it points to and whether the destination exists.
> > It should point into the linux source tree for 2.6 kernels.
> > 
> > What you can also try is disabling the TUN build configuration option.
> > As far as I have checked it will only built the tun kernel module that
> > you can get from the kernel sources as well.
> 
> Ok, I got the modules to load, and I've installed the mol package.  Now
> however, startmol things that the mol.ko module isn't loaded, however it
> is...
> 
> [root@obi-wan ~]# startmol --test
> /usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/bin/mol: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/bin/mol)
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.70 [Mar 27 2004 12:18]
> Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
> Starting MOL session 0
> Loading Mac-on-Linux kernel module:
>    /usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4/mol.ko
> Creating the /dev/sheep_net device node.
> Loading SheepNet kernel module:
>    /usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4/sheep.ko
> Creating the /dev/net/tun device node.
> Loading tun driver kernel module:
>    /usr/lib/mol/0.9.70/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4/tun.ko
> Removing stale lockfile /var/lock/mol-0
> Fatal error: Error: The MOL kernel module is not loaded
> 
> Any thoughts about this?

Strange. You say the mol module is loaded? Does /dev/mol exist? I don't
have any clue... I would now sit down and run MOL in gdb to see what
actually triggers the ioctl failure that yields this error (see
src/cpu/ppc/init.c).

Mattias