Hello,
Those are the standard AFS startup messages that have always been there 
with openafs 1.4.0 (and 1.4.1).  They are what it always says and they 
are harmless and normal.

At one time I used to remember what all that meant, but now all I 
remember is the kernel tainting part is so that if you get kernel core 
dumps, the kernel people know the kernel has some non-native drivers in it.

Troy

Neelesh Arora wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed SL 4.4 on a new server and notice the following 
> messages in the logs, when starting afs client at boot-up:
> 
> libafs: module license 'http://www.openafs.org/dl/license10.html' taints 
> kernel.
> libafs: no version for "sys_close" found: kernel tainted.
> libafs: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
> 
> The client does start and seems to work fine. Are these messages 
> innocuous or is there some configuration required before starting the 
> afs client (other than changing default cache size and ThisCell) ?
> 
> This is an off-site machine with the following afs-related rpms:
> root17:34:38 ~/# rpm -qa|grep afs
> openafs-1.4.1-0.11.SL.i386
> openafs-firstboot-1.2.11-5.SL.noarch
> openafs-krb5-1.4.1-0.11.SL.i386
> openafs-client-1.4.1-0.11.SL.i386
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-1.4.1-0.11.SL.i686
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp-1.4.1-0.11.SL.i686
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Neel


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