[lustre-discuss] Installing 2.15 on rhel 8.5 fails

[Thomas Roth]

Hmm, but we are using the in-kernel OFED, so this makes these messages all the more mysterious.
Regards,
Thomas

On 22/06/2022 19.12, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2022, at 10:40, Thomas Roth via lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org>> wrote:
> 
> my rhel8 system is actually an Alma Linux 8.5 installation, this is the first time the compatiblity to an alleged rhel8.5 software fails...
> 
> 
> The system is running kernel '4.18.0-348.2.1.el8_5'
> This version string can also be found in the package names in
> https://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.15.0/el8.5.2111/server/RPMS/x86_64
> - this is usually a good sign.
> 
> However, installation of kmod-lustre-2.15.0-1.el8 yields the well known "depmod: WARNINGs", like
>> /lib/modules/4.18.0-348.2.1.el8_lustre.x86_64/extra/lustre/net/ko2iblnd.ko needs unknown symbol __ib_alloc_pd
> 
> 
> The kernel from downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.15.0/el8.5.2111/server/RPMS/x86_64 identifies itself as "CentOS" and does not want to boot - no option either.
> 
> 
> Any hints how to proceed?
> 
> The ko2iblnd module is built against the in-kernel OFED, so if you are using MOFED you will need to rebuild the kernel modules themselves.  If you don't use IB at all you can ignore these depmod messages.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Lustre Principal Architect
> Whamcloud
> 








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