RE: /boot/kernel.h issues

["Stanley, Jon" <Jon Stanley savvis net>]

Unfortuantely, you have to use hp-OpenIPMI for management of the new
iLO2 based systems (360/380 G5).

I don't have a system handy to test this on, but I've dissected the RPM
mentioned, and it *attempts* to clean up after itself - look in the
hp-OpenIPMI.mk in /opt/hp/hp-OpenIPMI <rant>(which gets copied to just
Makefile in %post - ARRRRGGGGHHHH!  Don't vendors understand what RPM is
*for*???)</rant>.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Brian Long
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:14 AM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
> Subject: Re: /boot/kernel.h issues
> 
> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 15:17 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone has experienced /boot/kernel.h out-of-sync
> > issues?  For example, we've got machines which have the 
> following and
> > we're trying to figure out how this happened:
> > 
> > /* Kernel type i686-smp */
> > <snip>
> > #define __BOOT_KERNEL_SMP 0
> 
> I narrowed this down to a broken RPM provided by HP, specifically hp-
> OpenIPMI-7.5.1-8.rhel4.i386.rpm.  This RPM includes a 
> module-compilation
> script which actually moves /boot/kernel.h to /boot/kernel.h.ORIG and
> copies a uniprocessor file into /boot.  It does this to compile a
> uniprocessor kernel module.  On top of this being wrong, the file it
> puts in place has the identifier "i686-smp" although SMP is 0 
> and UP is
> 1.  This is why /sbin/mkkerneldoth never updates the file.
> 
> Thanks to HP for breaking hundreds of servers which I now 
> need to clean
> up manually (i.e. rm -f /boot/kernel.h; /sbin/mkkerneldoth).  Needless
> to say, we've removed hp-OpenIPMI from the yum repos we use for third-
> party and internal software on top of RHEL.
> 
> /Brian/
> 
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