Failed to build linux-image-2.6.33.rc1

[Lawrence Rust]

Binary package hint: kernel-package

Building a linux 2.6.33-rc1 image using kernel-package 11.001 (from Kubuntu 8.04 LTS) fails with the message:

The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h
     ""
does not match current version:
     "2.6.33-rc1"
Please correct this.

Builds of all previous kernels work fine. The problem can be fixed by first creating the debian directory with

make-kpkg debian

and then patching debian/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk line 141 :

UTS_RELEASE_HEADER=$(call doit,if [ -f include/linux/utsrelease.h ]; then \
                               echo include/linux/utsrelease.h; \
                           else \
                                echo include/linux/version.h ; \

to:

UTS_RELEASE_HEADER=$(call doit,if [ -f include/generated/utsrelease.h ]; then \
                              echo include/generated/utsrelease.h; \
                           elif [ -f include/linux/utsrelease.h ]; then \
                               echo include/linux/utsrelease.h; \
                           else \
                                echo include/linux/version.h ; \

Signed-off by: Lawrence Rust, <email address hidden>

[Matteo Croce (teknoraver)]

yes, I noticed it too, so I made this very similar patch

[Taki (wakoond)]

I noticed it too, with 2.6.33-rc3

(ubuntu 9.10)

[Aryeh Gregor (simetrical+launchpad)]

Still happens with 2.6.33-rc4, on 9.10.

[Andrius Štikonas (stikonas)]

This is fixed in kernel-package 12.032 which can be found in Debian squeeze (testing). Maybe somebody can sync this package from Debian.

[Aryeh Gregor (simetrical+launchpad)]

I subscribed ubuntu-main-sponsors as described at: <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess>. Sorry if this is incorrect.

[Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi)]

Sync request here: bug #512000

[Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi)]

kernel-package 12.032 from Debian Testing fix this issue in Ubuntu, I built succesfully kernel-zen 2.6.33-rc5 right now:

====== making target debian/stamp/binary/pre-linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1 [new prereqs: linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1]======

This is kernel package version 12.032.
/usr/bin/make -f ./debian/rules debian/stamp/binary/linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/zen'
====== making target debian/stamp/binary/linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1 [new prereqs: ]======

This is kernel package version 12.032.
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 /usr/src/zen/debian/linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1/DEBIAN
sed -e 's/=V/2.6.33-rc5-zen1/g' -e 's/=IB//g' \
            -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=R//g' \
            -e 's/=KPV/12.032/g' \
            -e 's/=K/vmlinuz/g' \
            -e 's/=I/YES/g' -e 's,=D,/boot,g' \
            -e 's@=A@amd64@g' \
            -e 's@=B@x86_64@g' \
          ./debian/pkg/image/postinst > /usr/src/zen/debian/linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1/DEBIAN/postinst
chmod 755 /usr/src/zen/debian/linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1/DEBIAN/postinst
sed -e 's/=V/2.6.33-rc5-zen1/g' -e 's/=IB//g' \
            -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=R//g' \
            -e 's/=KPV/12.032/g' \
            -e 's/=K/vmlinuz/g' \
            -e 's/=I/YES/g' -e 's,=D,/boot,g' \
            -e 's@=A@amd64@g' \
            -e 's@=B@x86_64@g' \
         ./debian/pkg/image/config > /usr/src/zen/debian/linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1/DEBIAN/config
chmod 755 /usr/src/zen/debian/linux-image-2.6.33-rc5-zen1/DEBIAN/config
sed -e 's/=V/2.6.33-rc5-zen1/g' -e 's/=IB//g' \
            -e 's/=ST/linux/g' -e 's/=R//g' \
            -e 's/=KPV/12.032/g' \
            -e 's/=K/vmlinuz/g' \
            -e 's/=I/YES/g' -e 's,=D,/boot,g' \
            -e 's/=MD//g' \
            -e 's@=MK@@g' -e 's@=A@amd64@g' \ ...

[dimas000 (asdfghjlk)]

yes, got the same problem today with 33-rc5 (from kernel.org) on ubuntu 9.10. on debian squeeze i've built the same kernel succesfully, but on ubuntu got exactly the same error:

The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h
     ""
does not match current version:
     "2.6.33-rc5-src"
Please correct this

i haven't touch Makefile, but used --append-to-version. tried 5 or 6 times with different version names... machine is tired of compiling today))) will try tomorrow with package from debian, hope if will work (ubuntu is x32, but debian is x64, so i can't just take the same .deb) :(