My first installation of free Sophos A/V 9.15.1 on RHEL 6.10 kernel 2.6.32-754.11.1.el6.x86_64 was successful. However, as the kernel has be updated to 14.2 and 15.3, the installation has failed with “checking for do_truncate type … configure” error: unknown”. The posts I’ve read indicate the problem is the kernel is not supported.
However, in https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/126492 there is a link to “TalpaBinaryPacks.txt” with a 19 page list of currently supported kernels. And 14.2, and 15.3 are supported. I am installing free Sophos on a RHEL workstation. I don’t know if the supported kernels list which indicates RHEL Server makes a difference.
On my successful installation on 11.1, the “checking for do_truncate type …” indicated a type of “3”. Can someone tell me how “talpa_select – do_truncate” determines that value and what it (3) means? And why would the kernel update cause do_truncate to fail?
Is there a workaround or fix for this problem?
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