[lustre-devel] CentOS 6 - Build problems with kmod

[Christopher J. Morrone]

On 08/18/2016 01:43 PM, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> Yes, those instructions should be taken with a huge grain of salt.  For
> instance, instructions for compiling lustre should really employ a

s/should/should NOT/

> custom user and talk about "useradd" and such.  Also, most users can
> skip the whole custom-patched-kernel section.  Hopefully all developers
> will be able to stop that too by the time 2.9.0 comes out.
> 
> The error you are seeing almost certainly means that you don't have a
> kernel installed that offers symbols compatible with the kernel that
> lustre was compiled against.
> 
> It sounds like you built your own kernel.  Did you install all the
> resulting kernel packages before building lustre (including any
> devel-related packages)?  Is your custom kernel the newest kernel
> installed on your system?
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 08/18/2016 01:00 PM, Patrick Farrell wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to build and install updated Lustre master on CentOS 6 for
>> the first time in a month or two, and I'm having trouble.
>>
>>
>> I use the build procedure documented here:
>>
>> https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8126821
>>
>>
>> I've got some new kmod-* RPMs, and I need to install those to install
>> Lustre, which is fine, except I get a huge string of messages like this
>> when I try:
>>
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>         ksym(__init_waitqueue_head) = 0xffc7c184 is needed by
>> kmod-lustre-2.8.56_44_g288e55b_dirty-1.el6.x86_64
>>         ksym(__mutex_init) = 0x4bf79039 is needed by
>> kmod-lustre-2.8.56_44_g288e55b_dirty-1.el6.x86_64
>>
>> I've rebuilt and reinstalled my kernel with this latest version of
>> Lustre.  Error messages remain the same, and I can't install.
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts or advice?
>>
>>
>> - Patrick
>>
>>
>>
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