Re: Kernel-devel

Kevin, I'm using a server from a company in spain that rents dedicated
servers.
At first, the server was setup with Fedora 13. Clean, no other stuff in it.
I started the process of installing Asterisk the same way I did with another
server that we have
but with Fedora 12. This other server was already 'prepered' by someone
else. They let
me the server after using it for a while and I successfully installed
Asterisk on it with no problems at all.
yum install kernel-devel and everything else worked fine.

So, when I started to have problems on the new server with Fedora 13, I
decided to downgrade to Fedora 12.
The problem is that the company that rents me the server, don't support
Fedora 12 anymore.
They have Fedora 11 or 13. So I choose Fedora 11x64. And here I'm.

With fedora 13 I couldn't install gcc either. Some dependencies were looking
for kernel > 2.2.1 or
something like it. So I decided to downgrade to 12.( that became 11 becouse
the didn't have 12 )

Someone here told me Fedora 11 is no longer supported. Is that true ? No
more repos available ?

So far the only thing that I can not do is to install kernel-devel.
Can I install some other version of kernel-devel and compile anyway ? Can I
trick it by changing the dir name ?
Asterisk needs this headers to 'make' it so ...

Here you have the /etc/grub.conf
[root@ns310181 etc]# more grub.conf
default=0
timeout=5

title linux fedora11_64
kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.33.5-xxxx-grs-ipv4-64 root=/dev/md1 ro
root (hd0,0)

Looks like a "special" Fedora version ( some xxxx there ), not a free one
you can download from internet.
May be the guys that let me the other server, installed a new kernel. Can I
do that ?
Can you give me some tips ( tips, guides, urls ) on how to do it ? I see
that you are kind of an expert on linux.
Obviously I'm not. But not afraid to try new things.

u'r d man !!!

Thanks.
Albert.

2010/8/12 Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 08/12/2010 03:10 PM, Albert Bonomo wrote:
Kevin, my man, you know what you r talking about !!!
here you have the command output:

[root@ns310181 include]# rpm -qa kernel\*
kernel-headers-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64

or the other one ( shorter )
[root@ns310181 include]# rpm -qa | grep 2.6
*kernel-headers-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64*
tar-1.22-6.fc11.x86_64
python-2.6-12.fc11.x86_64
nss-tools-3.12.6-1.2.fc11.x86_64
psmisc-22.6-9.fc11.x86_64
udev-extras-20090226-0.5.20090302git.fc11.x86_64
nss-3.12.6-1.2.fc11.x86_64
gnutls-2.6.6-3.fc11.x86_64
sudo-1.7.2p6-2.fc11.x86_64
gnutls-devel-2.6.6-3.fc11.x86_64
grep-2.6.3-1.fc11.x86_64
patch-2.6.1-1.fc11.x86_64
libtool-ltdl-2.2.6-11.fc11.3.x86_64
python-libs-2.6-12.fc11.x86_64
ssmtp-2.61-14.fc11.x86_64
iproute-2.6.29-2.fc11.x86_64
nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.6-1.2.fc11.x86_64

Now I see the real kernel. I'm running on 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64

Ah, no, you are not. if uname says you are running on 2.6.33.5, you
have booted a 2.6.33.5 kernel. The question now becomes, where is it,
and where did it come from? If you have no kernel RPM installed, then
where did your kernel come from. I have both a kernel and a
kernel-headers package installed (in fact, I have a couple of kernels
installed) on most of my systems.

On my 1 F11 system, I have:

# rpm -q -a kernel\*
kernel-headers-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586
kernel-devel-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586
kernel-doc-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.noarch
kernel-firmware-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.noarch
kernel-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586
kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586

and I'm running:

# uname -r
2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586

As you can see, I also have kernel-2.6.29.4-167 installed, but I'm not
booting it.

You need to look at your /etc/grub.conf file (or where it really lives
in /boot/grub/grub.conf) and see what kernels you system can boot from.
Perhaps that will shed some light on where your 2.6.33.5 kernel has come
from. You haven't installed anything from another non-RPM source have you?

BTW, the following are current F13 kernels:

rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686
kernel-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686
kernel-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686

You, obviously, are running on x86_64 hardware.

I can also see that I have header installed:
*kernel-headers-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64
*The question would be, where ?*
*So, I wonder why 'uname -r' gives me this crap:
2.6.33.5-xxxx-grs-ipv4-64 ????
And why 'yum install kernel-devel' doesn't work ?

I can't answer that without seeing more of your yum output (where is it
looking for kernels, etc). But, if you are running a non-rpm kernel,
building/installing other software is going to give you miles and miles
of grief. And finding/installing RPMs is going to be next to impossible
in cases like this.

Thanks for the answer.
you'r the man
Albert

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