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[Zach Retzlaff <>]

Merlin,

 

Scratch my previous email before you spend any time on that one, I made a mistake on my end.  Looks like the patch applied correctly this time, however I still cannot locate the web100 options in the menuconfig where the documentation says they should be.  Have you found that the documentation is inaccurate, or did the patch fail without errors?

 

 

Zach Retzlaff

 

From: Zach Retzlaff [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 3:07 PM
To: 'Merlijn Hofstra'
Cc:
Subject: RE: NDT Installation Assistance

 

Merlijn,

 

I just tried the patch with kernel 2.6.31.6, and the results aren’t any better.  The menuconfig won’t even come up:

 

[root@ndt linux-2.6.31.6]# make menuconfig

Makefile:303: /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.31.6/scripts/Kbuild.include: No such file or directory

make: *** empty variable name.  Stop.

make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

[root@ndt linux-2.6.31.6]#

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Zach Retzlaff

 

From: Zach Retzlaff [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 2:54 PM
To: 'Merlijn Hofstra'
Cc:
Subject: RE: NDT Installation Assistance

 

Merlijn,

 

I just hit [Enter] through the patch process this time, just to see what would happen.  It looks like nothing was applied.  There is no “Device Drivers  ---> Networking support  --->” category listed.  There is a “Network device support” category but I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for.  As for updating the kernel, I would prefer to use what the RHEL team considers “stable” – although for this project I’m probably going to have to relax my standards.  I will try downloading the latest kernel source and see if I can patch that.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Zach Retzlaff 

 

From: Merlijn Hofstra [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 2:30 PM
To: Zach Retzlaff
Cc:
Subject: Re: NDT Installation Assistance

 

Hi Zach,

Those bits that fail on the kernel patching are pretty normal if your kernel is already patched with other stuff (CentOS probably applies some custom patchsets). Applying the EXTRAVERSION manually makes that reject safe to ignore. The real questions however is do the web100 options show up in menuconfig? And can the kernel be compiled after patching? (On a side note - why not upgrade to a more recent kernel while you're in the process of recompiling it anyway).

The "File to Patch" question is merely for a Makefile, it can probably be ignored if nothing important fails. And the kernel patches are very much required to start the web100srv service.

Cheers,

Merlijn

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 21:12, Zach Retzlaff <> wrote:

Heather,

 

Thanks for the reply.  I purposefully didn’t include much info to begin with in case I was barking up the wrong tree.  I am more than happy to provide any information that would help in troubleshooting the issue.

 

I’m running CentOS 5.4 with Linux kernel 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.  The command I am using, per the install doc, and the results are as follows:

 

---

[root@ndt 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-i686]# patch -p1 < /root/ndt_dl/web100/web100-2.6.18-2.5.12-200609221010.patch

patching file Makefile

Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.

1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej

patching file Documentation/web100/locking.txt

patching file Documentation/web100/proc_interface.txt

patching file Documentation/web100/sysctl.txt

patching file fs/proc/Makefile

can't find file to patch at input line 219

Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?

The text leading up to this was:

--------------------------

|Index: linux-2.6-web100/fs/proc/root.c

|===================================================================

|RCS file: /home/web100/cvsroot/kern/linux-2.6-web100/fs/proc/root.c,v

|retrieving revision 1.1.1.6

|retrieving revision 1.8

|diff -u -p -w -r1.1.1.6 -r1.8

|--- linux-2.6-web100/fs/proc/root.c    22 Sep 2006 09:32:01 -0000      1.1.1.6

|+++ linux-2.6-web100/fs/proc/root.c    22 Sep 2006 13:00:23 -0000      1.8

--------------------------

File to patch:

---

 

I did try modifying the EXTRAVERSION so that it now reads:

 

EXTRAVERSION = -164.6.1.el5-web100

 

...as the install doc suggested, but that didn’t make a difference.

 

I don’t know what file to specify at this point (“File to patch:”).  Also, I was under the impression that the kernel patch is only meant to improve performance, and didn’t realize that the web100srv install would fail outright if not applied.  Let me know what you suggest.  Thanks!

 

 

Zach Retzlaff

 

From: Heather L. Sanders [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 1:13 PM
To: Zach Retzlaff
Cc: ''
Subject: Re: NDT Installation Assistance

 

Hello Zach,

This is a pretty helpful group. But...the information you are providing is a bit lacking. 

The kernel patch can fail in a number of ways.  What exactly happens when you try to apply the patch?  Please post what commands you run to issue the patch, then post the resulting output from your CentOS box.  Copy/Paste works the best for this.

The NDT install will fail, until you have successfully built your kernel with the patch and met all dependencies.
Heather Sanders.

Zach Retzlaff wrote:

NTD Users,

 

I’m not sure the right way to go about this, so I apologize if I missed something in the documentation.  I’m trying to get the NDT running on CentOS 5.4 and I’m having a heck of a time.  The kernel patch fails, as well as the web100srv and fakewww portions of the NDT install.  If someone can offer assistance, or at least point me in the right direction (i.e. user forums, etc.) that would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

 

 

Zach Retzlaff