[Gluster-devel] Bug Reports

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Wed Feb 11 23:16:10 UTC 2009


Guys,

If you thought this was a weird error, the solution seems to be even 
weirder. I just updated the kernel from the RHEL5.2 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 
to vanilla 2.6.24.7, and the fuse packages (including the kernel module) 
from the previous 2.7.3glfs10 to 2.7.4glfs11, and now ncurses works. So 
either a bug fix somewhere between the two has resolved this issue, or 
it has somehow shifted the error condition so it's not longer triggering.

Either way, curses now seems to work! Both the kernel "make menuconfig" 
and nVidia driver installer now work happily. :)

It would be nice to know what fixed it, though.

Gordan

Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Anand Avati wrote:
>>> I was also hoping that --disable-direct-io-mode might also fix the 
>>> curses
>>> issue with the kernel and the nVidia installer, but unfortunately, it
>>> didn't. :(
>>
>> Can you tell the exact errors which crop up during the failure? maybe
>> even get a screen/script log of the session?
> 
> This is the error - the bog standard error that the kernel compile 
> throws up when ncurses-devel package is missing. Except it isn't missing 
> in this case:
> 
> # make clean
> # make menuconfig
>   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
>   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
>   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/hash
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
>  *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
>  *** required header files.
>  *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
>  ***
>  *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
>  ***
> make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> # rpm -qa | grep ncurses
> ncurses-5.5-24.20060715
> ncurses-devel-5.5-24.20060715
> #
> 
> /usr/src/linux is on nfs
> / is on glusterfs
> 
> The same works when / is on ext3 (from two different machines that mount 
> /usr/src from the nfs server).
> 
> Logs would be really useful, but I'm not sure how I could provide those 
> until syslog support becomes available in glusterfs. :(
> 
> Gordan
> 
> 
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