Steven,

I'm afraid I'm testing with an unstable version that I'm prepping to
release, but it's not ready yet.

Yann -- do you have debs that you have built from your 4.2.x source
tree?  If so, I'd like to add them to the SystemImager Debian repo and
get a copy to Steven.

Thanks, -Brian


On 2014-01-17, 08:36:14pm, DuChene, Steven A wrote:
>OK, I just checked the debian/Ubuntu  system where I am trying to run 
>si_prepareclient and it has systemimager  v4.1.6 packages installed.
>I notice the patch you sent seems to be from a 4.2.X branch. Where do I get 
>that branch from??? The newest available from the sourceforge files section is 
>4.1.6 from 2008.
>
>Is there any place to download this from so I can transfer it to a group of 
>systems that do not have internet access?
>--
>Steven DuChene
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: DuChene, Steven A
>Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:17 AM
>To: Brian Elliott Finley
>Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
>
>Brian:
>What version of systemimager are you using to do your testing? I am looking on 
>the source forge files area and everything there is very old. Is there some 
>place where you are storing newer versions? I will try the patch you sent 
>though and see if applies cleanly to the bits I have installed.
>--
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:br...@thefinleys.com]
>Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:16 PM
>To: DuChene, Steven A
>Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
>
>Thanks for the good information, Steven.
>
>It looks like Yann Aubert may have fixed the parsing issue.  I checked out his 
>repo, and see this in his commit log:
>
>      ┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager.Yann_Aubert/branches/4.2.x/
>      └─[$] svn log
>      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      r4 | aubert | 2011-12-08 07:36:16 -0600 (Thu, 08 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
>
>->  Fix pvdisplay parsing when column appears in device name
>
>      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      r3 | aubert | 2011-12-07 11:58:21 -0600 (Wed, 07 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
>
>      fix interface discovery problem when compiling with linux 3.0
>
>      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      r2 | aubert | 2011-12-01 11:37:38 -0600 (Thu, 01 Dec 2011) | 2 lines
>
>      Debian packages can be generated again
>
>      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      r1 | aubert | 2011-11-30 11:27:04 -0600 (Wed, 30 Nov 2011) | 2 lines
>
>      Importé de svn.systemiager.org
>
>
>     ┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager.Yann_Aubert/branches/4.2.x/
>     └─[$] svn diff -r PREV
>     Index: lib/SystemImager/Common.pm
>     ===================================================================
>     --- lib/SystemImager/Common.pm  (revision 3)
>     +++ lib/SystemImager/Common.pm  (working copy)
>     @@ -1062,11 +1062,12 @@
>                  $part = $disk . $minor;
>              }
>              # Get physical volume information -AR-
>     -        my $cmd = "pvdisplay -c /dev/$part 2>/dev/null";
>     +        my $cmd = "pvs --noheadings -o vg_name /dev/$part 2>/dev/null";
>              open (PV_INFO, "$cmd|");
>              unless (eof(PV_INFO)) {
>     -            my @pv_data = split(/:/, <PV_INFO>);
>     -            my $vg_name = $pv_data[1];
>     +       my $vg_name = <PV_INFO>;
>     +       chomp ($vg_name);
>     +       $vg_name = substr ($vg_name, 2);
>                  # This partition will become part to the volume group 
> $vg_name -AR-
>                  print DISK_FILE qq( lvm_group="$vg_name");
>              }
>
>
>Hope that helps in the mean time.  You can give it a try by applying the 
>attached patch to your installed system...
>
>As for the kernel, si_prepareclient completed successfully for me on Quantal.  
>It's one release newer than what you were using, but I have no reason to 
>expect it to not work with that kernel either.
>
>     ┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager/ master ⚡
>     └─[$] lsb_release -a
>     No LSB modules are available.
>     Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>     Description:    Ubuntu 12.10
>     Release:    12.10
>     Codename:   quantal
>
>     ┌─[bfinley@bob] ~/src/systemimager/ master ⚡
>     └─[$] uname -r
>     3.5.0-45-generic
>
>
>Cheers, -Brian
>
>
>On 2013-12-10, 05:02:10pm, Steven DuChene wrote:
>>Bryan:
>>Sorry I missed getting to SC2013
>>
>>Did you ever get a chance to look at this Ubuntu 12.04 issue with
>>systemimager?
>>--
>>Steve
>>
>>On 11/18/2013 07:27 AM, DuChene, Steven A wrote:
>>>
>>>Brian:
>>>
>>>Any updates yet on the issues I raised below with systemimager?
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>Steven DuChene
>>>
>>>*From:*Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:br...@thefinleys.com]
>>>*Sent:* Monday, November 04, 2013 8:35 PM
>>>*To:* SISuite Users List
>>>*Subject:* Re: [sisuite-users] support newer kernels in systemimager?
>>>
>>>Hi Steven,
>>>
>>>Thanks for the report.  I'll see if I can re-create it in the lab, and
>>>update the code accordingly.
>>>
>>>Thanks, -Brian
>>>
>>>On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Steven DuChene
>>><steven.a.duch...@hp.com <mailto:steven.a.duch...@hp.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>I am trying to capture the image of a system that is running Ubuntu
>>>Precise 12.04LTS and when I run the si_prepareclient with the
>>>following command line switches:
>>>
>>>si_prepareclient --server 10.23.18.10 --my-modules
>>>
>>>I get the following :
>>>
>>>Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
>>>Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
>>>Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
>>>Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
>>>Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
>>>Use of uninitialized value $leftovers in substitution (s///) at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 704.
>>>Use of uninitialized value $leftovers in split at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 707.
>>>Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
>>>Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split at
>>>/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199.
>>>ERROR: unsupported kernel 3.5.0-23-generic!
>>>
>>>The warnings or errors about "Use of uninitialized value $v1 in split
>>>at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 199" is due
>>>to the way parted is now returning multiple line of text output when
>>>the --version option is passed. It seems that the perl code that is
>>>supposed to be parsing the stuff that is not able to handle that
>>>multi-line output to extract the version of the parted utility.
>>>
>>>
>>>However what concerns me most is the message back that says the
>>>3.5.0-23-generic kernel is not supported.
>>>Is there any documentation available for systemimager that would show
>>>the necessary process steps to incorperate support for newer kernels?
>>>
>>>Any suggestions about any of this would be most appreciated. BTW, I
>>>have the following installed on the Ubuntu system:
>>>
>>>ii  systemconfigurator 2.2.11-1  Unified Configuration API for Linux
>>>Installation ii  systemimager-client 4.1.6 Utilities for creating an
>>>image and upgrading client machines ii  systemimager-common 4.1.6
>>>Utilities and libraries common to both the server and client ii
>>>systemimager-initrd-template-amd64 4.1.6 SystemImager initrd template
>>>for amd64 client nodes
>>>
>>>--
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