Hi Kit, On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:24:52AM -0400, Kit Westneat wrote:
> Are there any plans to release something like the ibvers.sh script with > Lustre? I think that having an easy automated workaround, even if it is > a hack, is better then having none. Even just some documentation about > the problem would be helpful I think. From what I can tell, the extra > Module.symvers functionality was added in kernel 2.6.17, so this bug not > only affects RHEL4 but also SLES10. I'm glad to know it is a known issue > though, and I am not just crazy :-) It's in SLES 10 - must have been backported by Novell. I ran into this issue when working on bug 12842. That bug contains patches to backport the fix to RHEL 4 and SLES 9, which may help with the OFED issue as well, but likely something else needs to be done to actually _use_ the new modpost features as well. Cheers, Jody > Thanks, > Kit > > Liang Zhen gmail wrote: > > Hi Kit, > > Yes we have met this problem for kernel doesn't support extra > > Module.symvers file, there are some discussing on this: > > https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12316 > > Openfabric has discussing on this too: > > http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/ewg/2007-February/002701.html > > the resolution is somehow hacking, so we haven't put it in release. > > > > Regards > > Liang > > > > > > Kit Westneat wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I had problems with missing modules errors, but the problem I had was > >> that the Lustre compilation process was picking up the symbol > >> versions of the original OFED stack, and not the new symbols. What I > >> finally had to do was edit /usr/src/linux/Modules.symvers and delete > >> every line containing the word infiniband. After that I ran configure > >> --with-o2ib=/usr/src/openib, and it worked fine. You can tell if you > >> are running into the same problem by looking at /var/log/messages. > >> There will be a bunch of messages saying something to the effect of > >> version mismatch with various functions. > >> > >> I'm not sure if anyone else is running into that, but it took me > >> forever to figure out. > >> > >> - Kit > >> > >> Thomas Blum wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> at the moment I'm trying to get a system running with > >>> 2.6.16-46-0.14_lustre.1.6.2smp and OFED1.2 but experience a lot of > >>> problems. The first is described in bugzilla 13639. To build the > >>> OFED stack you have to do some fixes in OFED scripts or do a > >>> recompile of the Lustre kernel with a new naming like > >>> 2.6.16.46-0.14-lustre.1.6.2smp. After that you will be able to build > >>> the OFED packages but you also have to recompile the lustre-modules > >>> and lustre "tools" which doesn't work well at the moment because it > >>> seems that some modules are missing and are not integrated into the > >>> new rpms. > >>> > >>> Best regards > >>> > >>> Thomas > >>> > >>> H. N. HARAKE schrieb: > >>> > >>>> Did anyone managed to build packages of the OFED 1.2.X on any of > >>>> these kernels: > >>>> I believe that 1.1 and 1.2 should supported as mentioned by the > >>>> release notes. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> 2.6.16-27-0.9_lustre-1.6.0.1smp > >>>> 2.6.16-46-0.14_lustre.1.6.2smp > >>>> > >>>> Best Regards > >>>> H. N. Harake > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Lustre-discuss mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Lustre-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss -- _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
