Hi all, On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 14:43 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> That is what I would recommend and what several groups do (usually with > Debian, though). > > > not running the sles/rhel distro ? I know a lot of things can happen but > > are these rhel/sles patches do brake some key features of the kernel which > > would only work under that specific distro ? I've positivley tested a > > lustre client with a sles patched kernel on a gentoo distro. But i'am a > > bit nervous about testing it on our live lustre server system. > > The only thing that really might cause trouble is udev, since sysfs > maintainers like to break old udev versions. I think upcoming Debian Squeeze > requires 2.6.27 at a minimum. Argg!!!, I think I am stacked with this situation. I compiled linux-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.tar.bz2 under Ubuntu 10.04 (from Debian Squeeze) using make-kpkg and after dealing with postinst.d hooks to create initrd image (not created by default!!!), I tried to boot and then I got the following before dropping into a initramfs shell: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin: Mounting root file system... ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Done. libudev: udev_monitor_new_from_netlink: error getting socket: Invalid argument wait-for-root[431] : segfault Gave up waiting form root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?) -Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/0cff75ed-ba7f-4799-b596-cf2b214b9768 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) buit-in shell (ask) Enter 'Help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is this the problem you are talking about? Could you give me some ideas of how can be solved? Regards -- Ramiro Alba Centre Tecnològic de Tranferència de Calor http://www.cttc.upc.edu Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeries Industrial i Aeronàutica de Terrassa Colom 11, E-08222, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain Tel: (+34) 93 739 86 46 -- Aquest missatge ha estat analitzat per MailScanner a la cerca de virus i d'altres continguts perillosos, i es considera que està net. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss