Debian Bug report logs - #571716
/usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Felix Schueller <fs-linux_bug@fschueller.eu>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:15:33 +0100

Package: kernel-package
Version: 11.015
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/make-kpkg


make-kpkg fails to build linux-image-2.6.33 .deb, because
$kernel_src/include/linux/utsrelease.h is no longer updated (i assume this is
because this functionality is moved to $kernel_src/include/generated/utsrelease.h)

I using vanilla kernel.org source, kept uptodate via kernel.org patches.

############# output ##################

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33'
====== making target debian/stamp/install/linux-image-2.6.33 [new prereqs: ]======
This is kernel package version 11.015.
echo "The UTS Release version in include/linux/utsrelease.h"; echo "	   \"2.6.32.8\" "; echo "does not match current version:"; echo "	   \"2.6.33\" "; echo "Please correct this."; exit 2
The UTS Release version in include/linux/utsrelease.h
	   "2.6.32.8" 
does not match current version:
	   "2.6.33" 
Please correct this.
make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/install/linux-image-2.6.33] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33'
make: *** [kernel_image] Error 2


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.8
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  debianutils         2.30                 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                1.14.28              Debian package management system
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.28              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.26-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gcc [c-compiler]    4:4.3.2-2            The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-3.3 [c-compiler 1:3.3.6-15           The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.1 [c-compiler 4.1.2-25             The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.3 [c-compiler 4.3.2-1.1            The GNU C compiler
ii  gettext             0.17-4               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  make                3.81-5               The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-init-tools   3.4-1                tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  perl                5.10.0-19lenny2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf          1.0.15               manage translated Debconf template
ii  util-linux          2.13.1.1-1           Miscellaneous system utilities

Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii  bzip2                       1.0.5-1      high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]        2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Development Librari

Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
pn  docbook-utils             <none>         (no description available)
ii  e2fsprogs                 1.41.3-1       ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-in 0.92o          tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libdb3-dev                3.2.9+dfsg-0.1 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [de
ii  libncurses5-dev [libncurs 5.7+20081213-1 developer's libraries and docs for
pn  linux-source | kernel-sou <none>         (no description available)
pn  xmlto                     <none>         (no description available)

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 571716@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Olivier Guilyardi <olivier@samalyse.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <571716@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: kernel-package: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:37:18 +0100

Package: kernel-package
Version: 11.015
Followup-For: Bug #571716

Hi,

similar problem here :

$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.etoile.2.5 --initrd kernel_image

[...] (compiling looks ok)

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33'
test ! -e scripts/package/builddeb || mv -f scripts/package/builddeb scripts/package/builddeb.kpkg-dist
test ! -e scripts/package/Makefile || test -f scripts/package/Makefile.kpkg-dist || (mv -f scripts/package/Makefile scripts/package/Makefile.kpkg-dist && (echo "# Dummy file "; echo "help:") >  scripts/package/Makefile)
COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l 'gcc*' perl dpkg 'libc6*' binutils make dpkg-dev |\
         awk '$1 ~ /[hi]i/ { printf("%s-%s\n", $2, $3) }'> debian/buildinfo
uname -a >> debian/buildinfo
echo using the compiler: >> debian/buildinfo
grep LINUX_COMPILER include/linux/compile.h | \
           sed -e 's/.*LINUX_COMPILER "//' -e 's/"$//' >> debian/buildinfo
grep: include/linux/compile.h: No such file or directory
echo applied kernel patches: >> debian/buildinfo
echo done > debian/stamp/build/kernel
/usr/bin/make -f ./debian/rules         debian/stamp/binary/pre-linux-image-2.6.33.etoile.2.5
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33'
====== making target debian/stamp/install/linux-image-2.6.33.etoile.2.5 [new prereqs: ]======
This is kernel package version 11.015.
echo "The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h"; echo "          \"\" "; echo "does not match current version:"; echo "          \"2.6.33.etoile.2.5\" "; echo "Please correct this."; exit 2
The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h
           ""
does not match current version:
           "2.6.33.etoile.2.5"
Please correct this.
make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/install/linux-image-2.6.33.etoile.2.5] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33'
make: *** [kernel_image] Error 2

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.2.etoile.2.4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  debianutils         2.30                 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                1.14.29              Debian package management system
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.29              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.26-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gcc [c-compiler]    4:4.3.2-2            The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.0 [c-compiler 4.0.3-7              The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.1 [c-compiler 4.1.2-25             The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.3 [c-compiler 4.3.2-1.1            The GNU C compiler
ii  gettext             0.17-4               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  make                3.81-5               The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-init-tools   3.4-1                tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  perl                5.10.0-19lenny2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf          1.0.15               manage translated Debconf template
ii  util-linux          2.13.1.1-1           Miscellaneous system utilities

Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]          2.9-4      GNU C Library: Development Librari

Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
ii  docbook-utils      0.6.14-1.1            Convert Docbook files to other for
ii  e2fsprogs          1.41.3-1              ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  initramfs-tools [l 0.92o                 tools for generating an initramfs
pn  libdb3-dev         <none>                (no description available)
ii  libncurses5-dev [l 5.7+20081213-1        developer's libraries and docs for
ii  linux-source-2.6.1 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch5 Linux kernel source for version 2.
pn  xmlto              <none>                (no description available)

-- no debconf information

Message #15 received at 571716@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Olivier Guilyardi <olivier@samalyse.com>

To: 571716@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#571716: Info received (kernel-package: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33)

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:50:37 +0100

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I apparently worked this around with a manual modification of
debian/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk. See the attached diff.

Cheers

--
  Olivier

[workaround.diff (text/plain, inline)]

--- debian/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk.old	2010-03-12 16:44:42.000000000 +0100
+++ debian/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk	2010-03-12 16:41:29.000000000 +0100
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@
 EXTRAV_ARG :=
 endif
 
-UTS_RELEASE_HEADER=$(call doit,if [ -f include/linux/utsrelease.h ]; then  \
-	                       echo include/linux/utsrelease.h;            \
+UTS_RELEASE_HEADER=$(call doit,if [ -f include/generated/utsrelease.h ]; then  \
+	                       echo include/generated/utsrelease.h;            \
 	                   else                                            \
                                echo include/linux/version.h ;              \
 	                   fi)

Message #20 received at 571716-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>

To: Felix Schueller <fs-linux_bug@fschueller.eu>

Cc: 571716-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#571716: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:13:32 -0800

Version: 12.032

Hi,

        Thanks for the report.  This has been fixed in recent version of
 kernel-package. 

        manoj
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Message #25 received at 571716@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>

To: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>

Cc: Felix Schueller <fs-linux_bug@fschueller.eu>, 571716@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#571716: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:06:37 +0100

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:13:32 -0800
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> wrote:


>         Thanks for the report.  This has been fixed in recent version of
>  kernel-package. 

Is there a chance that this fix will end up in stable
any time soon? 

			Attila Kinali

-- 
Why does it take years to find the answers to
the questions one should have asked long ago?

Message #30 received at 571716@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>

To: Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>

Cc: 571716@bugs.debian.org, Felix Schueller <fs-linux_bug@fschueller.eu>

Subject: Re: Bug#571716: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:06:55 -0700

On Sun, Mar 14 2010, Attila Kinali wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:13:32 -0800
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> wrote:
>
>>         Thanks for the report.  This has been fixed in recent version of
>>  kernel-package. 
>
> Is there a chance that this fix will end up in stable
> any time soon? 

        Unfortunately, not very high. And as a package maintainer, I
 have little control over that;  release policy is set by the stable
 release managers, and I am not sure that building kernel images meets
 the bar for inclusion into stable.

        I suspect that kernel-package would be easy to backport, though,
 since it does not use  any perl or make facilities that were not
 present in Lenny. One might have to also backport the /sbin/installkernel
 shell script (((((((((again, fairly trivial)

        manoj

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Message #35 received at 571716@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>

To: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>

Cc: 571716@bugs.debian.org, Felix Schueller <fs-linux_bug@fschueller.eu>

Subject: Re: Bug#571716: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:40:18 +0100

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:06:55 -0700
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> wrote:

>         Unfortunately, not very high. And as a package maintainer, I
>  have little control over that;  release policy is set by the stable
>  release managers, and I am not sure that building kernel images meets
>  the bar for inclusion into stable.

IMHO it should. Building custom kernels is pretty much standard,
to get fixes for kernel bugs and support for new hardware.

Considering that 2.6.33 fixes a memory handling bug introduced
in 2.6.30, which causes the kernel to fail to allocate memory
and hence lock up for seconds, i'd say this fix for kernel-package
should be backported rather sooner than later.
 
Is there anything we can do as users, to help you getting this
backport done and included into stable?

			Attila Kinali


-- 
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If you want to walk far, walk together.
		-- African proverb

Message #40 received at 571716@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net>

To: 571716@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#571716: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:34:20 -0300

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On Monday, 15 March 2010 07:40:18 +0100,
Attila Kinali wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:06:55 -0700
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> wrote:

> >         Unfortunately, not very high. And as a package maintainer, I
> >  have little control over that;  release policy is set by the stable
> >  release managers, and I am not sure that building kernel images
> >  meets the bar for inclusion into stable.

> IMHO it should. Building custom kernels is pretty much standard, to
> get fixes for kernel bugs and support for new hardware.
>
> Considering that 2.6.33 fixes a memory handling bug introduced in
> 2.6.30, which causes the kernel to fail to allocate memory and hence
> lock up for seconds, i'd say this fix for kernel-package should be
> backported rather sooner than later.
>
> Is there anything we can do as users, to help you getting this
> backport done and included into stable?

Also I was with this problem past monday trying to compile Linux
2.6.33.1 in Debian Lenny amd64. We will have some estimation of when it
could be solved?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Regards,
Daniel
--
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Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux with uptime:
06:20:04 up 36 days, 30 min, 10 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.09

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Message #45 received at 571716@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Bareiro <dbareiro@uol.com.ar>

To: Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>, 571716@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>, Felix Schueller <fs-linux_bug@fschueller.eu>

Subject: Re: Bug#571716: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:28:09 -0300

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On Monday, 15 March 2010 07:40:18 +0100,
Attila Kinali wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:06:55 -0700
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> wrote:

> >         Unfortunately, not very high. And as a package maintainer, I
> >  have little control over that;  release policy is set by the stable
> >  release managers, and I am not sure that building kernel images
> >  meets the bar for inclusion into stable.

> IMHO it should. Building custom kernels is pretty much standard, to
> get fixes for kernel bugs and support for new hardware.
>
> Considering that 2.6.33 fixes a memory handling bug introduced in
> 2.6.30, which causes the kernel to fail to allocate memory and hence
> lock up for seconds, i'd say this fix for kernel-package should be
> backported rather sooner than later.
>
> Is there anything we can do as users, to help you getting this
> backport done and included into stable?

Also I was with this problem past monday trying to compile Linux
2.6.33.1 in Debian Lenny amd64. We will have some estimation of when it
could be solved?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Regards,
Daniel
--
Daniel Bareiro - GNU/Linux registered user #188.598
Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux with uptime:
06:20:04 up 36 days, 30 min, 10 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.09

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Message #50 received at 571716@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>

Cc: Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>, 571716@bugs.debian.org, Felix Schueller <fs-linux_bug@fschueller.eu>

Subject: Re: Bug#571716: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: make-kpkg fails building .deb for linux 2.6.33

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:21:20 +0200

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         Unfortunately, not very high. And as a package maintainer, I
>  have little control over that;  release policy is set by the stable
>  release managers, and I am not sure that building kernel images meets
>  the bar for inclusion into stable.

You could ask at least on debian-release@lists.debian.org. Given the fix
is fairly simple and easy to review I think they would accept it.
They are interested in keeping stable usable as well as stable. :)

Cheers,
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