From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932364AbVJ3WTt (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:19:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932365AbVJ3WTt (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:19:49 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:32448 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932364AbVJ3WTt (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:19:49 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:19:14 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: larry.finger@att.net (Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Broken "make install" in 2.6.14-git1 Message-Id: <20051030141914.51033f02.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <103020052203.28455.436543310008FB9900006F2721603759649D0A09020700D2979D9D0E04@att.net> References: <103020052203.28455.436543310008FB9900006F2721603759649D0A09020700D2979D9D0E04@att.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org larry.finger@att.net (Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net) wrote: > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Andrew Morton > > larry.finger@att.net (Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net) 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 2005-10-29 16:02:16 > Committer: Linus Torvalds 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"?