CentOS - Sep 2008 - Adding patch to Centos Kernel - early build failure

Hi Guys

I'm trying to add the patch mentioned in this thread to the plain Centos 
kernel

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-August/062845.html

I've followed the directions on the wiki for building a custom kernel, 
but after applying all the patches it fails with:

make[1]: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 4
make: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep)

RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep)

Can anyone help with this? Or is there an easier way to apply the patch, 
as I'm not wanting to change the config of the kernel in any way?

Thanks

Dunc

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Dunc <centos at duncb.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I'm trying to add the patch mentioned in this thread to the plain
Centos
> kernel
>
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-August/062845.html
>
> I've followed the directions on the wiki for building a custom kernel,
but
> after applying all the patches it fails with:
>
> make[1]: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 4
> make: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 2
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep)
>
> RPM build errors:
>   Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep)
>
> Can anyone help with this? Or is there an easier way to apply the patch, as
> I'm not wanting to change the config of the kernel in any way?
Just wanted to make sure you ran the rpmbuild command with
--target=`uname -m` ?  Or did you attempt to build it for an arch that
is different from the running kernel?

Now...

This bug looks quite nasty and seems to be affecting a good number of
people.  There is a long discussion thread on the Scientific Linux and
someone there is offering patched SL kernels:

http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0808&L=scientific-linux-users&T=0&P=17645

In a case like this, Johnny Hughes used to build a patched version of
CentOS kernels.  Seems like he is not available at this moment.  Would
some other CentOS dev be able to do this for affected CentOS users?

Akemi

Dunc wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I'm trying to add the patch mentioned in this thread to the plain 
> Centos kernel
>
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-August/062845.html
>
> I've followed the directions on the wiki for building a custom kernel, 
> but after applying all the patches it fails with:
>
> make[1]: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 4
> make: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 2
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep)
>
> RPM build errors:
>    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep)
Just to follow up on this, the patch meant nonint_oldconfig was 
expecting some more config options in the .config.

I had to add:

CONFIG_PATA_ISAPNP=n
CONFIG_PATA_LEGACY=n
CONFIG_PATA_QDI=n
CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB=n

to the base and PAE configs, and then the build continued. No idea if 
putting n was the right option, but I'm sure i'll find out when I run 
the kernel..

cheers

Dunc