rawhide report: 20060629changes(kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6doesn't boot) (2336 also)

[Jim Bevier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom London" <selinux at gmail.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: rawhide report: 20060629changes(kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6doesn't 
boot)


> On 6/29/06, Jim Bevier <jim at jbsys.com> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tom London" <selinux at gmail.com>
>> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
>> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: rawhide report: 20060629
>> changes(kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6doesn't boot)
>>
>>
>> > On 6/29/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> On Thursday 29 June 2006 15:50, Jim Bevier wrote:
>> >> > Well switching over to the "new spec file" causes all the 3rd party
>> >> > module
>> >> > build scripts to fail. The say "kernel configuration not valid - run
>> >> > 'make
>> >> > prepare' in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-x86_64 to update it."
>> >> > Are
>> >> > you going back to the old way or are going to have to fix all the
>> >> > builds?
>> >> > I vote for the old way! Using "_FC6" is fine with me. There errors 
>> >> > so
>> >> > far are for mvidia, vmware, ntfs, and spca5xx modules.
>> >>
>> >> What are they checking to figure this out?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jesse Keating
>> >> Release Engineer: Fedora
>> >>
>> > Could this be coming from source/Makefile:
>> > # If .config is newer than include/config/auto.conf, someone tinkered
>> > # with it and forgot to run make oldconfig.
>> > # if auto.conf.cmd is missing then we are probably in a cleaned tree so
>> > # we execute the config step to be sure to catch updated Kconfig files
>> > include/config/auto.conf: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) 
>> > include/config/auto.conf.cmd
>> > ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
>> >        $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile silentoldconfig
>> > else
>> >        $(error kernel configuration not valid - run 'make prepare' in
>> > $(srctree) to update it)
>> > endif
>> >
>> > tom
>> > --
>> > Tom London
>> >
>>
>> It looks like this is where the message is coming from.  For example,
>> spca5xx executes "make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
>> SUBDIRS=/root/spca5xx-20060501 CC=cc modules" to build the module.  The
>> error is coming from the 
>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-x86_64/Makefile.
>> Where do I go from here to fix this?  I am not a Makefile wizard :-(.
>>
>> Jim
>>
> I 'fixed' this by doing the following:
>     cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-i686
>     make prepare
>
> Worked for me after that (i.e., I could build the vmware modules).

I did:
cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2336.fc6-x86_64
make prepare
vmware-config.pl
and it still fails with the same error!

I could not build vmware or spca5xx modules.  Ntfs module build worked.  It 
is a src livna modified build.

Is this error 64bit only?  Any more ideas of what to try?

Jim

>
> tom
> -- 
> Tom London
>