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Bug 242256 - app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 +gentoo-sources-2.6.27 - error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
Summary: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 +gentoo-sources-2.6.27 - error: asm/...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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: 253215 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 227303
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Reported: 2008-10-15 20:00 UTC by Pat
Modified: 2009-01-12 23:27 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Pat 2008-10-15 20:00:57 UTC 
I've attempted to install install vmware-server. Everything works fine until vmware-modules starts compiling.

I am using kernel 2.6.27-gentoo. (testing).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.paludis -i vmware-modules
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
>>> Done src_unpack
>>> Starting src_compile
 * Preparing vmmon module
make -j5 HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc LDFLAGS= auto-build VMWARE_VER=VME_S1B1 KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo/build
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. M=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo'
make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent make rule.
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/./include/x86.h:24,
                 from /var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:15,
                 from /var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:53:
/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/./include/x86paging.h:61:1: warning: "PTE_PFN_MASK" redefined
In file included from include/asm/pda.h:8,
                 from include/asm/current.h:19,
                 from include/asm/processor.h:15,
                 from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
                 from include/linux/list.h:6,
                 from include/linux/module.h:9,
                 from /var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:16:
include/asm/page.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/vmhost.h:13,
                 from /var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:84:
/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/./include/compat_semaphore.h:5:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:171: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:172: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:175: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:176: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function '__LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1781: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
/usr/libexec/paludis/utils/emake: emake returned error 2

!!! ERROR in app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1:
!!! In linux-mod_src_compile at line 3515
!!! Unable to emake HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc LDFLAGS=   auto-build VMWARE_VER=VME_S1B1 KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo/build

!!! Call stack:
!!!    * linux-mod_src_compile (/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/temp/loadsaveenv:3515)
!!!    * src_compile (/var/tmp/paludis/app-emulation-vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/temp/loadsaveenv:4454)
!!!    * ebuild_f_compile (/usr/libexec/paludis/0/src_compile.bash:49)
!!!    * ebuild_main (/usr/libexec/paludis/ebuild.bash:470)
!!!    * main (/usr/libexec/paludis/ebuild.bash:485)

diefunc: making ebuild PID 10290 exit with error
die trap: exiting with error.

Install error:
  * In program paludis -i vmware-modules:
  * When performing install action from command line:
  * When executing install task:
  * When installing 'app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1:0::gentoo':
  * Install error: Install failed for 'app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1:0::gentoo'


Expected Results:  
Successful installation of vmware-modules.

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.27-gentoo x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=k8"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=k8"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ ftp://gentoo.tiscali.nl/pub/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mmx mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode vim-syntax xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx vesa vga"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-10-17 19:15:36 UTC 
This asm/semaphore.h header seems to have been removed in 2.6.27. For example, it also breaks nvidia-drivers in bug #242476.
Comment 2 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-17 21:26:58 UTC 
vmware-modules-1.0.0.15 doesn't yet work with the 2.6.26 sources, there's no way it'll work with 2.6.27.  This may take a long time to resolve, if indeed it ever does get resolved. See bug 227303 for more details...
Comment 3 Alex Buell 2008-12-29 17:49:12 UTC 
There's an unofficial patch for this problem at this:

http://www.insecure.ws/2008/10/20/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2627

You might like to use this with 2.6.26+ temporarily until vmware comes out with their own fix for this.
Comment 4 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-04 12:14:32 UTC 
*** Bug 253215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-10 12:56:46 UTC 
Thanks very much for the pointer to insecure.ws, it proved extremely useful.  vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 just hit the tree, so I'm going to mark this as FIXED.  If you're having any problems, please open a NEW bug.  Thanks...
Comment 6 Alex Buell 2009-01-10 14:42:05 UTC 
Glad to be of help. When will -r2 become stable? Thanks, it's the only thing that prevented me from migrating to 2.6.27.
Comment 7 Alex Buell 2009-01-12 12:44:14 UTC 
Good and bad news.

The good news, -r2 works perfectly on x86 platforms for kernels > 2.6.25. The bad news, -r2 does not work on amd64 platforms running OpenVZ-006.5 (2.6.24) whereas -r1 worked perfectly.
Comment 8 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-12 21:06:52 UTC 
Sigh.

Is there any chance you could give -r2 a try on a normal (not openvz) 2.6.24 kernel and let me know the results?

It should be relatively easy to keep the old modules around and add in a check, but I'd like to know if it's necessary, rather than just being an openvz thing (which technically, we don't support)...
Comment 9 Alex Buell 2009-01-12 21:16:57 UTC 
The problem is quite simple; the reason why it fails to compile is because it's complaining about a missing linux/semaphore.h header file which is only available in 2.6.27+ linux kernels (or kernel headers). I think it probably needs to check for that and configure accordingly.
Comment 10 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-12 21:48:52 UTC 
Ok, that is pretty straight forward (I'm not sure why I didn't do that in the first place).  If you remove those changes from the relevant patches (patches/vmmon/040_... and patches/vmnet/035_...), does that fix everything?
Comment 11 Alex Buell 2009-01-12 22:37:03 UTC 
Yep, that solved the problem entirely - I guess this depends on the version of the kernel you are using vmware with. Glad to be of help.
Comment 12 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-12 23:27:12 UTC 
Ok, should be fixed in the main tree.  Give it a couple of hours and then recompile and let me know if there's any other problems.  Thanks again Alex, you've been invaluable!  5:)