[DRBD-user] DRBD on RHEL 7 beta

Digimer lists at alteeve.ca
Mon Dec 23 03:39:59 CET 2013

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On 22/12/13 09:28 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 22/12/13 06:05 AM, Patrick Lists wrote:
>> Hi Digimer,
>>
>> On 12/22/2013 07:46 AM, Digimer wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>    I am testing RHEL 7 and DRBD. I grabbed drbd from the Fedora 19 repos
>>> as EPEL isn't up yet. It installed fine, but I can't seem to 'modprobe
>>> drbd'.
>>>
>>>    Has anyone tried to get DRBD running on RHEL 7 yet? Mind sharing the
>>> secret sauce, if so? If not, I'll try installing from source.
>>
>> Have you checked the logs? Watch the output of 'journalctl -f' when you
>> modprobe drbd and it should tell you what's going on.
>>
>> Instead of installing from source I would just grab the source rpm,
>> check the spec file for any obvious incompatibilities with EL7, fix any
>> and rebuild it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Patrick
>
> Ok, I realized that '--without-km' was set in the spec. I changed that
> to '--with-km' and tried building it again, but it failed this time. I'm
> not much of a programmer, so I'm hoping you (or others) might be able to
> help here.
>
> Here is the error, so far as I can tell:
>
> ====
> gcc -O2 -g -Wall -I. -I../drbd -I../drbd/compat   -c -o drbdadm_parser.o
> drbdadm_parser.c
>    UPD     /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/compat.h
>    CC [M]  /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_buildtag.o
>    CC [M]  /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_bitmap.o
> gcc -O2 -g -Wall -I. -I../drbd -I../drbd/compat   -c -o drbdadm_main.o
> drbdadm_main.c
> In file included from
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c:35:0:
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_int.h:2515:0: warning:
> "idr_for_each_entry" redefined [enabled by default]
>   #define idr_for_each_entry(idp, entry, id)    \
>   ^
> In file included from include/linux/cgroup.h:19:0,
>                   from include/net/netprio_cgroup.h:16,
>                   from include/linux/netdevice.h:48,
>                   from include/net/sock.h:51,
>                   from include/linux/connector.h:30,
>                   from
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/linux/drbd.h:28,
>                   from
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c:28:
> include/linux/idr.h:132:0: note: this is the location of the previous
> definition
>   #define idr_for_each_entry(idp, entry, id)   \
>   ^
>    CC [M]  /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_proc.o
> gcc -O2 -g -Wall -I. -I../drbd -I../drbd/compat   -c -o drbdadm_adjust.o
> drbdadm_adjust.c
> gcc -O2 -g -Wall -I. -I../drbd -I../drbd/compat   -c -o
> drbdtool_common.o drbdtool_common.c
> In file included from
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_proc.c:34:0:
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_int.h:2515:0: warning:
> "idr_for_each_entry" redefined [enabled by default]
>   #define idr_for_each_entry(idp, entry, id)    \
>   ^
> In file included from include/linux/cgroup.h:19:0,
>                   from include/net/netprio_cgroup.h:16,
>                   from include/linux/netdevice.h:48,
>                   from include/net/sock.h:51,
>                   from include/linux/connector.h:30,
>                   from
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/linux/drbd.h:28,
>                   from /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_proc.c:33:
> include/linux/idr.h:132:0: note: this is the location of the previous
> definition
>   #define idr_for_each_entry(idp, entry, id)   \
>   ^
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_proc.c: In function
> 'drbd_proc_open':
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_proc.c:320:3: error: implicit
> declaration of function 'PDE' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>     return single_open(file, drbd_seq_show, PDE(inode)->data);
>     ^
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_proc.c:320:53: error: invalid
> type argument of '->' (have 'int')
>     return single_open(file, drbd_seq_show, PDE(inode)->data);
>                                                       ^
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> make[3]: *** [/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd/drbd_proc.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [_module_/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64'
> make[1]: *** [kbuild] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/drbd-8.4.3/drbd'
> make: *** [module] Error 2
> ====
>
> I'll keep poking at it and report back if I make progress... As of now
> though, I'm stuck. :)

Building from 8.4.3 source errors out with the same problem.

Now I'm out of ideas.

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Digimer
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