[gpfsug-discuss] make InstallImages errors

Edward Wahl ewahl at osc.edu
Fri Apr 22 21:12:20 BST 2016


On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:52:35 +0000
"Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <S.J.Thompson at bham.ac.uk>
wrote:

> 
> Did you do a kernel upgrade as well?
> 
> I've seen similar when you get dangling symlinks in the weak updates kernel
> module directory.
> Simon

I've had exactly the same experience here.  From 4.x going back to early 3.4
with this error.

Ed




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> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We have a small test cluster that I am upgrading from GPFS 4.1.0.8 (efix21)
> to GPFS 4.2.0.2.  I noticed that on 2 of my 3 NSD servers I received the
> following errors:
> 
> /usr/lpp/mmfs/src
> root at testnsd3# make InstallImages
> (cd gpl-linux; /usr/bin/make InstallImages; \
> exit $?) || exit 1
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux'
> Pre-kbuild step 1...
> depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, mmfs26.ko): No such file or directory
> depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, mmfslinux.ko): No such file or directory
> depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, tracedev.ko): No such file or directory
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux'
> /usr/lpp/mmfs/src
> root at testnsd3#
> 
> However, they don’t seem to actually impact anything … i.e. GPFS starts up
> just fine on the box and the upgrade is apparently successful:
> 
> /root
> root at testnsd3# mmgetstate
> 
>  Node number  Node name        GPFS state
> ------------------------------------------
>        3      testnsd3         active
> /root
> root at testnsd3# mmdiag --version
> 
> === mmdiag: version ===
> Current GPFS build: "4.2.0.2 ".
> Built on Mar  7 2016 at 10:28:55
> Running 5 minutes 5 secs
> /root
> root at testnsd3#
> 
> So just to satisfy my own curiosity, has anyone else seen this and can
> anybody explain what that’s all about?  OS is latest CentOS 7, BTW.  Thanks…
> 
> Kevin
> 
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