Thanks Michael,

Another user also suggested moving to OrangeFS.  I successfully installed
everything using OrangeFS and tested I/O (based on the quick-start guide).

Adam

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Michael Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
> The utsrelease.h file has been moved within the kernel source tree since
> PVFS2 2.8.2 was releases. You'll need to either download 2.8.4 (the
> project's name changed to OrangeFS in releases after 2.8.2). That release
> handles both the moved utsrelease.h file and other kernel changes present in
> 2.6.35.
>
> There is also an issue in all releases that require adding
> '--disable-segv-backtrace' to the configure flags. You can check out the
> latest CVS code from the Orange-Branch that resolves the issue (directions
> at the bottom of http://www.orangefs.org/support/).
>
> If you still have issues after trying the newer code, let us know!
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Adam Yee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Following this guide:
>> http://www.pvfs.org/cvs/pvfs-2-8-branch-docs/doc//pvfs2-quickstart/pvfs2-quickstart.php
>>
>> I worked out everything successfully up to section 5.2 Preparing Linux
>> Kernel 2.6.x configurations.
>>
>> Here's what I see:
>>
>> local_account@server1:/usr/src/pvfs-2.8.2$ uname -r
>> 2.6.35-22-server
>> local_account@server1:/usr/src/pvfs-2.8.2$ sudo ./configure
>> --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22
>> ...
>> ...
>> checking for pkg-config... no
>> checking for __error_code field in aiocb struct... yes
>> checking for __return_value field in aiocb struct... yes
>> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
>> checking for void *... yes
>> checking size of void *... 8
>> configure: error: The kernel source tree must have been configured.
>>
>> Using the alternate method:
>>
>> local_account@server1:/usr/src/pvfs-2.8.2$ sudo ./configure
>> --with-kernel=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
>> ...
>> ...
>> checking for void *... yes
>> checking size of void *... 8
>> grep: /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-server/build/include/linux/utsrelease.h: No
>> such file or directory
>> configure: error: The kernel source tree does not appear to be 2.6
>> local_account@server1:/usr/src/pvfs-2.8.2$ ls /lib/modules/`uname
>> -r`/build
>> arch           drivers   init    lib             net       sound   usr
>> block          firmware  ipc     Makefile        samples   source  virt
>> crypto         fs        Kbuild  mm              scripts   tools
>> Documentation  include   kernel  Module.symvers  security  ubuntu
>>
>> I do have the file that it is looking for though:
>>
>> local_account@server1:/usr/src/pvfs-2.8.2$ locate utsrelease
>> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-server/include/generated/utsrelease.h
>>
>> I noticed from this thread
>> http://www.beowulf-underground.org/pipermail/pvfs2-users/2008-March/002348.html
>>  I
>> might need to install a devel package, but what is it for Debian?  Is this
>> my issue?  If anyone has solved this before could you please help?
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Adam
>>
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