Changes in kernel mess up Cisco VPN build

Richard England rlengland at verizon.net
Wed Jun 11 04:50:58 UTC 2008


Is there anyone here that builds kernel modules that might provide some 
insight into what might have changed in the kernel between 
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686  and  2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 to cause an invalid 
module format to be built?  These are, I believe the next to last and 
last kernel updates, respectively.

The builds under both kernels appear to run correctly (no error 
messages) but when you try install the module it errors:


[root at wimsey vpnclient]# /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start
Starting /opt/cisco-vpnclient/bin/vpnclient: insmod: error inserting 
'/lib/modules/2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.ko': -1 Invalid 
module format
Failed (insmod)


This is the  vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.01.0640-k9_f8.tar.gz build from 
Cisco (obtainable from  
ftp://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/vc-graz/vpn/vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.01.0640-k9.tar.gz
as modified by the patch from
http://projects.tuxx-home.at/ciscovpn/patches/vpnclient-linux-2.6.24-final.diff

The tar file contains an install script that uses make but, while I can 
read the make file, I'm a relative newby when  it comes to modules so 
any insight will be helpful. 

Thanks,

~~Richard




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