[ofa-general] OFED build problems on Centos 5.2

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Robert Dunkley wrote:
> I’m trying to compile OFED 1.3.1 on Centos 5.2 (The Xen Kernel). I have 
> installed all the dependencies listed in readme.txt (And a few extra 
> including kernel-devel-xen). I cannot get it to install though, below is 
> the errors from the log, I’m guessing it is probably a dependency 
> problem or maybe an existing OFED install interfering but really cannot 
> find what is needed. I am quite new to this but have managed an OFED 
> install on a couple of different Centos 5.1 systems. Does anyone know 
> how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Rob
> 

> error: File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.ko
> error: File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.ko
> error: File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.ko
> error: File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/net/rds
> error: File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/net/cxgb3
> error: File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/net/mlx4
> Processing files: kernel-ib-devel-1.3.1-2.6.18_92.el5xen
> Requires(interp): /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh
> Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 
> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
> Requires(pre): /bin/sh
> Requires(post): /bin/sh
> Requires(postun): /bin/sh
> Requires: /bin/bash kernel-ib
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     user vlad does not exist - using root
>     group vlad does not exist - using root
>     user vlad does not exist - using root
>     group vlad does not exist - using root
> 
>     File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.ko
>     File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/scsi/libiscsi.ko
>     File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.ko
>     File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/net/rds
>     File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/net/cxgb3
>     File not found: 
> /var/tmp/OFED/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5xen/updates/kernel/drivers/net/mlx4
> 

Hi Robert,
 From the log file you send I see that kernel modules were installed to some different place.
Please run the following command and send me its output and the full compilation log file (ofa_kernel.rpmbuild.log).

find /var/tmp -name '*.ko'

Regards,
Vladimir