Kathryn Bower wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I downloaded the latest 2.4-xfs development tree via CVS yesterday (19/05),
> but get the following Errors when running `make modules_install`:
>
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-xfs-19May2003/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.o
> depmod: panic_notifier_list
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-xfs-19May2003/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.o
> depmod: panic_notifier_list
> depmod: panic_timeout
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-xfs-19May2003/kernel/drivers/net/fc/iph5526.o
> depmod: fc_type_trans
>
>
> I get these errors regardless of whether I compile xfs support as a module,
> or statically within the kernel. I don't get any errors during any other
> step in the build process.
>
> System is running RedHat 7.3. The current kernel also includes xfs support
> 2.4.20-xfs which was built on 02/04/2003, without any problems. Gcc version
> 2.96.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to resolve these errors?
This doesn't look XFS specific. It might be a general problem of the
underlying kernel version 2.4.21-rc2. You might want to verify that these
problems also occur using vanilla 2.4.21-rc2 from ftp.kernel.org. If so,
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx would be the better forum to get help.
Regards,
Juri
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