Xentronium
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Germany
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 Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:25 am Post subject: Issues with Kernel 2.6.27 |
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Greetings,
since the recent nvidia-drivers lost support for my old kernel version I upgraded to linux-2.6.27 (gentoo-sources) and experienced some issues with it.
After building the kernel, I tried to rebuild the nvidia-drivers but it failed because of an unknown symbol "kmalloc_caches". With the help of Google I found out that the build error had something to do with slab/slub allocators and that the new drivers need "slub" to be set. Following this hint the drivers compiled successfully but this change triggered another problem:
1. After compiling I got a warning, that vhba.ko needs an unknown symbol "malloc_sizes". I didn't thought much about it, since warnings are sadly a quite common thing in the linux world BUT I grew concerned when the rebuild of the nvidia-driver expressed the very same warning.
The driver seems to work fine anyway but since I try to keep my system healthy I'd like to know what this warning is about and how I can get rid of it.
2. Another issue that may or may not have something to do with the warning above (I'm not sure about that) is:
VMWare-Server stoped working after the kernel upgrade, which was kind of expected since the vm-modules also need rebuilding however it was not expected, that the build fails (in multiple versions). The Error:
| Code: | * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3290: Called linux-mod_src_compile
* environment, line 2506: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* eval "emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" CC="$(get-KERNEL_CC)" LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS} " || die "Unable to emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" CC="$(get-KERNEL_CC)" LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}";
* The die message:
* Unable to emake HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc LDFLAGS= auto-build VMWARE_VER=VME_S1B1 KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo/build
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* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/temp/environment'. |
Also tried Version 1.0.0.22 with the same result. I am no expert but the message suggests, that it has something to do with the new kernel but I don't no what and how to fix it.
If anyone has a clue of what is going on, I would very much appreciate help
My Portage --info output:
| Code: | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_246-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:16:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.2-r8
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.26
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config /usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread ffmpeg fortran gd gdbm gif gpm hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal midi mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 readline reflection samba scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xcomposite xine xml xorg xulrunner xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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