[Pvfs2-users] pvfs2 on 2.6.18

[Sam Lang]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Suneet Chandok wrote:

> kernel sources are installed in /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34/. Here's  
> an output of 'uname -a'. I am running the same kernel.
>
> salmon:~/pvfs-2.6.2 # uname -a
> Linux salmon 2.6.18.2-34-default #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 11:46:27 UTC  
> 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>

Hmm..I think your previous comment about the source not having  
utsrelease.h may have misled us a bit.  The kernel sources don't  
contain version.h or utsrelease.h, they get generated when the kernel  
sources are compiled.  Normally, we check that the version.h file  
exists (to ensure that you've configured/compiled your sources), but  
somehow your sources have that file, but fail to get the version from  
utsrelease.h (which is where its placed as of 2.6.18).  Can you  
verify that the following files exist:

/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34/include/linux/version.h
/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34/include/linux/utsrelease.h

And if so, send the contents of them?

> I saw a similar problem in mailing list posted in august.
> http://www.beowulf-underground.org/pipermail/pvfs2-developers/2006- 
> August/002363.html

As Rob mentions, he took care of the problem, and releases since  
pvfs-2.6.0 (2.6.1 and 2.6.2) have contained fixes for it.  If the  
check for utsrelease.h really doesn't work for you, there could be  
something wrong with the fix, but we haven't had any problems with it  
thus far.

-sam

>
> -Suneet
>
> On 2/9/07, Sam Lang <slang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> You need to point --with-kernel at a configured kernel source
> directory that matches the kernel version you're running.  Did the
> kernel sources you installed put anything in /usr/src/?
>
> -sam
>
> On Feb 9, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Suneet Chandok wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > No, I didn't comiled the kernel code.
> > I have installed openSUSE 10.2 and kernel sources.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > -Suneet
> >
> > On 2/9/07, Murali Vilayannur < murali.vilayannur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Suneet,
> > Did you configure and build the fresh 2.6.18 kernel tree?
> > If yes, it looks like our configure script checking is broken on the
> > newer kernel trees..
> > thanks,
> > Murali
> >
> > On 2/9/07, Sam Lang < slang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Suneet,
> > >
> > > Can you send the full build output with the error you're getting?
> > >
> > > -sam
> > >
> > > On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Suneet Chandok wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I got an error configuring pvfs-2.6.2 on kernel-2.6.18. It is
> > > > looking for utsrelease.h file in $KERNEL_CODE/include/linux
> > > > directory. I checked the fresh code from kernel.org and this  
> file
> > > > doesn't exists in this version.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way around to configure and compile it on 2.6.18
> > kernel?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Suneet Chandok
> > > > Research Assistant
> > > > Parallel Software Technologies Laboratory
> > > > Department of Computer Science
> > > > University of Houston
> > > >
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> > --
> > Suneet Chandok
> > Research Assistant
> > Parallel Software Technologies Laboratory
> > Department of Computer Science
> > University of Houston
> >
> > Cell: 704-248-0718
> > Email: schandok at cs.uh.edu
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Suneet Chandok
> Research Assistant
> Parallel Software Technologies Laboratory
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Houston
>
> Cell: 704-248-0718
> Email: schandok at cs.uh.edu