From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Tracy Subject: Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:25:47 -0600 Message-ID: <20110224102547.GA29330@gherkin.frus.com> References: <20110224070203.GA28419@gherkin.frus.com> <4D662AD3.5000700@orcon.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D662AD3.5000700@orcon.net.nz> Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Cree Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, mattst88@gmail.com, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:54:27PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Oops, sorry, I should've sent a message to the list to warn people of this! Not your job to protect us from ourselves :-). Besides... What better way to see who's still actively (in some sense) involved in the Alpha community, eh? > As you have identified the problem is that the syscall inotify_init1() > is not implemented in the Debian supplied kernel. It did not make it > into the kernel until version 2.6.33. I did submit a bug report and a > patch to update the kernel to the Debian bugzilla but I was too late and > the Squeeze freeze beat me to it and it didn't get included. Actually, I've been running "sid" for a long time... The risk of a broken system has always been there, but needless to say I've been lucky. Besides, that's the only way to get current packages on the Alpha from Debian these days. That's a roundabout way of saying I'm running late enough kernels (both Debian-supplied and built from kernel.org source) that inotify_init1() was definitely present in the running kernel when I did the upgrade. As you point out later in your reply, libc6.1 hasn't caught up on Alpha: I noticed the stubbed-out function. As I type this, I'm back up and running with a patched udev_166-1. It was easier and faster to patch/build "udev" than do a libc6.1 build. When the smoke cleared, I simply copied in the new version of "/sbin/udevd" and was finally able to configure the installed package (as well as the other 49-or-so packages). That's more excitement than I wanted this evening: local time is now 0424 and I've been up since 0700 yesterday :-(. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit rct@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken ------------------------------------------------------------------------