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$Id: Problems,v 1.16 2003/08/14 17:15:52 srivasta Exp $
This is an (incomplete) list of problems that people have encountered
in the past while using kernel-package. Please remember to configure
the kernel for your machine using make menuconfig, and to clean the
source tree before compiling a new image using make-kpkg clean.
a) Failure to format a floppy disk while installing kernel image.
fdformat from the obsolete package miscutils sometimes has problems
formatting floppies. Install the package fdutils instead.
Also, sometimes the new fdformat fails for /dev/fd0 unless the
parameters are set using setfdprm -- in short, make sure that you can
format floppies manually before asking the kernel image postinst to do
so.
b) warning, 'debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field
'Installed-Size' warning,
dpkg-deb: unable to create '..': is a directory
The problem is actually that the version of dpkg being used is
too old for kernel-package; kernel-package version 3.X needs dpkg
1.4.0.0 at least.
c) dpkg-gencontrol fails with the error message
failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
This is an error in older versions of dpkg-dev. Upgrading to version
1.4.0.9 should help.
d) install: debian/changelog: No such file or directory
Remember to do make-kpkg clean with a patched/old kernel source tree
(if this is not a clean tree, clean it first).
e) make-kpkg goes into an infinite loop when trying to make oldconfig.
This is _not_ a bug with kernel-package, it is a well known
incompatibility between the new version of expr (which has suddenly
become POSIX compliant) and the kernel sources (which did not expect
expr to behave this way).
The fix is to apply the following patch to the kernel sources.
--- scripts/Configure.dist Mon Jan 20 14:43:24 1997
+++ scripts/Configure Tue Jan 21 05:41:30 1997
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
def=${old:-$3}
while :; do
readln "$1 ($2) [$def] " "$def" "$old"
- if expr "$ans" : '0$\|-?[1-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
+ if expr "$ans" : '0$\|-\?[1-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
define_int "$2" "$ans"
break
else
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@
while :; do
readln "$1 ($2) [$def] " "$def" "$old"
ans=${ans#*[x,X]}
- if expr "$ans" : '[0-9a-fA-F]+$' > /dev/null; then
+ if expr "$ans" : '[0-9a-fA-F]\+$' > /dev/null; then
define_hex "$2" "$ans"
break
else
f) % depmod -a
modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory
This is a problem with the newly changed behavior of depmod and
friends, who suddenly stopped liking non .o files in
/lib/modules/<version>. Newer versions of kernel package, like this
one, handle that right. For older image packages, the test is:
% find /lib/modules/2.0.30/ -type f -exec file {} \; | grep -v 'ELF 32-bit'
/lib/modules/2.0.30/modules.dep: ASCII text
Anything other than modules.dep showing up is something that depmod
can no longer tolerate. Remove those files, and things should be fine.
g) dpkg-gencontrol fails if LC_ALL is set to de_DE. Actually, I can't
really confirm this works for anything except en_US. This is true as of
dpkg/dpkg-dev 1.4.0.19. The error actually reported seems to be
either that debian/substvars file can not be found, or that the
changelog file is empty (even when the file is not empty).
The work around seems to be to set the LC_ALL to en_US while compiling
the kernel. This should be fixed soon.
h) dpkg upgrades the custom kernel to a new standard kernel. This
means that epochs were used; unfortunately I did not consider
that when I wrote all the documentation. I have since upgraded
the documentation; and you can add epochs to your custom kernel
just as well as the upstream maintainers.
i) The build keeps erring out. It fails with the following:
objdump: illegal option -- k
rm `which encaps`
j) build fails with a bizarre error talking about /bin/ls and tab
sizes = Text:
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/math-emu'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/math-emu'
ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x100000 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o in
it/version.o \
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \
fs/filesystems.a \
drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a drivers/cdrom/cdrom.a drivers/pci/pci.a arch/i386/math-emu/math.a \
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/lib/lib.a /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32
/bin/ls: invalid tab size: text
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32'
make: *** [all] Error 2
make-kpkg --zimage <other options> kernel_image
This is truly a weird error message for machines that need
zImage rather than the default bzImage
k) Modules do not build when there is an epoch in the version.
Some modules have been reported to have problems with epochs
in the version number.
l) The version number seems to be dropped in the name of the package,
i.e., you get results like kernel-image-.._300_i386.deb, where the
300 is from the --revision flag.
This seems to result from using the broken perl 5.005 packages
installed a while ago in unstable. That package has since been
withdrawn. Problems seem to go away when one downgrades to 5.004.
This is also caused by a broken grep, (for example, grep
2.3-1). Upgrading to a fixed grep solves this (2.3-4 is known
to work, at the time of writing this).
m) Some versions of gcc do not interact well with the kernel
sources (the upcoming gcc 2.95 has problems compiling the
kernel without the flag '-fno-strict-aliasing' (I think you
may have to edit the makefile for this, or something). This is
an universal problem, hopefully there shall be a compromise
somewhere
A symptom may be failures like:
Makefile:153: arch/i586/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `arch/i586/Makefile'. Stop.
n) I keep getting this kind of messages:
make[1]: i386-linux-gcc: Command not found
This is a result of having the env variable ARCH set when you do
not intend to cross compile the kernel. Unsetting ARCH works fine.
o) booting from the new kernel fails with
VFS: Cannot open root device "308" or 03:08
immediately followed by a kernel panic
The cause for this is either you have not compiled the file
system type of the root file system into the kernel, or you
have instructed your boot loader to expect an initrd kernel
(this is required for running a recent official kernel image,
and have installed a non-initrd garden variety kernel image.
You need to go back and recompile the kernel image, either
including the root file system type as a builtin, or adding a
--initrd flag to the make-kpkg run.
p) Even when the kernel is built with a regular user using fakeroot,
it fails with
> install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN
> install: cannot create directory `debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN': Permission
> denied
since the ./debian/tmp-image directory is owned by root.root
It was actually due to the fact that (somehow) the XFS filesystem
didn't have restrict_chown set (see /proc/sys/fs/xfs/restrict_chown),
which was causing install to give away permissions on a directory
(lesson: fakeroot and xfs w/o restrict_chown=1 don't play together
nicely).
q) The most recent versions of sudo (versions after 1.6.8p12-1)
now create a default sudoers file with the env_reset option
set. This causes make-kpkg to fail with the rather
unexpected error message "make: Nothing to be done for
`$(i_package)'." since the i_package variable is constructed
without the APPEND_TO_VERSION string in the sub-make
invocation with sudo because env_reset causes sudo to clean
it out of the environment. Clearly there are other possible
failure conditions/messages depending on which variables the
root sub-make is expecting to find.
So, using sudo with env_reset will cause errors, possibly
with the above error message.
r) When run in a git sourced tree, scripts/setlocalversion
checks to see if the tree is the trunk, if not, it adds
version information to the kernel version. It also checks
to see if there are uncommitted changes, if so, it adds the
string "-dirty" to the version. Since we change a couple of
files in ./scripts/, this falls afoul of the make-kpkg
checks, since the version number is now different from what
make-kpkg knows it to be.
s) there is an additional truncated commit ID added by the
script scripts/setlocalversion whenever it detects that we
are not building from a tagged commit of the official tree,
so it might be just simpler to get rid of it altogether,
which is what make-kpkg does now.
t)
There is a problem when GREP_OPTIONS are exported, since it
may impact the results coming out of grep in scripts that
are tun in subshells -- and, of course, make-kpkg is one of
them.
$ echo $GREP_OPTIONS --colour=always
So the Perl regex does not match in:
UTS_RELEASE_VERSION=$(call doit,if [ -f $(UTS_RELEASE_HEADER) ]; then \
grep 'define UTS_RELEASE' $(UTS_RELEASE_HEADER) | \
perl -nle 'm/^\s*\#define\s+UTS_RELEASE\s+("?)(\S+)\1/g && print $$2;';\
else echo "" ; \
fi)
This shows up as an error message like:
,----
| The UTS Release version in include/linux/utsrelease.h
| ""
| does not match current version:
| "2.6.18"
| Please correct this.
| make: *** [install/linux-image-2.6.18] Erreur 2
`----
u) The current version of make-kpkg is incompatible with
older versions of make. Specifically, the problem shows
up as:
,----
| $ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd
| exec make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk debian INITRD=YES
| /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk:55: *** missing `endif'. Stop.
| Failed to create a ./debian directory: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 1096.
`----
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