Re: Broken "make install" in 2.6.14-git1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 17:19:49 EST


larry.finger@xxxxxxx (Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> > larry.finger@xxxxxxx (Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > >
> > > The changes introduced the commit 596c96ba05e5d56e72451e02f93f4e15e17458df
> > break the initrd building step of the "make install" process. The console output
> > is as follows:
> >
> > I'm unable to locate that commit, perhaps due to a local lack of gittiness.
> >
> > Can you describe the patch less cryptically?
> >
>
> I'm not very good with git. All that bisect visualize shows for the patch is the following:
>
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2005-10-29 16:02:16
> Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2005-10-29 16:02:16
> Parent: e9d52234e35b27ea4ea5f2ab64ca47b1a0c740ab (Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus)
>
> Obviously, it consists of a number of patches, but I don't know how to elaborate. Is there some git command to get the full description?

Yes, that's a sort of empty marker which indicates the point at which Linus
merged the MIPS git tree. It's rather bad of git-bisect if it told you
that this was offending patch.

> > > >sudo make install
> > > CHK include/linux/version.h
> > > CHK include/linux/compile.h
> > > SKIPPED include/linux/compile.h
> > > CHK usr/initramfs_list
> > > Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready (#97)
> > > sh /home/finger/kernel/linux/arch/i386/boot/install.sh 2.6.14-g596c96ba
> > arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
> > > Root device: /dev/hda6 (mounted on / as reiserfs)
> > > Module list: via82cxxx processor thermal fan reiserfs
> > >
> > > Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-g596c96ba
> > > Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.14-g596c96ba
> > > Shared libs: lib/ld-2.3.5.so lib/libblkid.so.1.0 lib/libc-2.3.5.so
> > lib/libselinux.so.1 lib/libuuid.so.1.2
> > > Driver modules: via82cxxx processor thermal fan reiserfs
> > > Filesystem modules:
> > > Including: klibc initramfs udev fsck.reiserfs
> > > Bootsplash: SuSE (1024x768)
> > > 8358 blocks
> > > no record for '/block/hdc/uevent' in database
> > > Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Bootloader/Tools.pm line 139.
> > > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Bootloader/Tools.pm line 140.
> > > ......
> > >
> > > I used git bisect to localize the bad commit. I also observed that if the
> > kernel created /sys/block/hdc/uevent, it failed. If this "file" does not exist,
> > the install worked.
> >
> > What does "it failed" mean? Is this the same bug, or a different one?
>
> Same bug. _make install_ fails if the uevent files are present. Sorry for the imprecision.
>

I don't know what'a happening here. What program is saying "no record for
'/block/hdc/uevent' in database"?
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