[Debian] Re: Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

[David Baron]

On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:16, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hi David
>
> When I compiled the kernel yesterday using the same version of the kernel
> and the openvz patch I did not need to do anything with symlinking.
>
> My compile line look something like this:
> export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=true
> untar xxx.tar.gz
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make-kpkg -rfakeroot --append-to-version -openvz --added_patches openvz \
> 	--revision 02 --initrd
>
> I used the same .config file as in the upstream version.
> I built it for 486, 686 and k7.
>

Fine. Starting virgin or after "dist-clean", the symlink to asm-i### is 
absent. For some reason, the initial scripts compiles do not place it and the 
make-kpkg aborts. So, easy enough to work around. Don't need to? Even easier.

I am not using an initrd. Got sick of all the problems, especially since yaird 
was introduced (old mkinitrd worked fine). Since unix.ko and some others come 
up missing several symbols:
 WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-davidb-ovz/kernel/net/unix/unix.ko needs unknown 
symbol ub_skb_set_charge, 
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-davidb-ovz/kernel/net/unix/unix.ko needs unknown 
symbol ub_sock_make_wreserv, 
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-davidb-ovz/kernel/net/unix/unix.ko needs unknown 
symbol sock_alloc_send_skb2, 
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-davidb-ovz/kernel/net/unix/unix.ko needs unknown 
symbol ub_sock_snd_queue_add, 
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-davidb-ovz/kernel/net/unix/unix.ko needs unknown 
symbol ub_sock_get_wreserv, 
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-davidb-ovz/kernel/kernel/vzwdog.ko needs unknown 
symbol first_online_pgdat, 
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-davidb-ovz/kernel/kernel/vzwdog.ko needs unknown 
symbol next_online_pgdat, 
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-davidb-ovz/kernel/fs/binfmt_misc.ko needs 
unknown symbol reset_files_struct
I cannot boot the thing? What is in your initrd? Maybe I need to compile in a 
couple more pieces :-)