Lustre discuss - Oct 2007 - Update - ksym errors when installing modules in SLES10

I''ve just set up a small lustre installation on mixed SLES10 32-bit and
SLES10 SP1 64-bit.  32-bit would give ksym errors upon installation of
modules rpm, while 64-bit SP1 it was only warnings.   I did a little
research on the ksym package and it seemed to me it was only needed if
you were trying to install a module compiled for a different kernel
version.  Since CFS is providing a complete set I went ahead and added
--nodeps to force the installation.  It worked.

Hi Joe,

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:56:21PM -0400, Joe Georger
wrote:
> I''ve just set up a small lustre installation on mixed SLES10
32-bit and
> SLES10 SP1 64-bit.  32-bit would give ksym errors upon installation of
> modules rpm, while 64-bit SP1 it was only warnings.   I did a little
> research on the ksym package and it seemed to me it was only needed if
> you were trying to install a module compiled for a different kernel
> version.  Since CFS is providing a complete set I went ahead and added
> --nodeps to force the installation.  It worked.
This is a known issue.  See bug 11932.  --nodeps is the recommended
workaround.  We still use module symbol versioning, so modprobe will
refuse to load mismatched modules.

Cheers,
Jody
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