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Kernel – 5.8-rc2 – Still Catastrophic Failure with VMware Runtime.

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on June 22, 2020 by RGJune 22, 2020

Kernel 5.8-rc2 has been released, and brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2006.2/08747.html There is no change to the problem with VMware runtime, and vmware-modconfig still segfaults, and the system still reboots immediately, when a VM open is attempted. To check that this was not due to a kernel misconfiguration, I installed the Fedora (Rawhide) version of Kernel 5.8-rc1 … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., Fedora, kernel, Linux, Opinion, VMware | Tagged kernel 5.8-rc2 released, problems occurs with fedora 33 5.8-rc1 kernel., vmware runtime reboot still occurs, vmware-modconfig segfault | 1 Reply

Kernel – 5.8-rc1 Released – Problem with VMware Runtime..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on June 14, 2020 by RGJune 14, 2020

Kernel 5.8-rc1 has been released, and details are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2006.1/07293.html NVIDIA 440.82 with the 5.7 and 5.8 patches seems to be OK, but I have encountered a serious problem with VMware, and have now confirmed the same fault on two different systems (both Fedora 32 x86_64) The VMware 15.5.6 vmmon/vmnet modules compile/run OK with the kernel 5.7 … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., Fedora, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged Kernel 5.8-rc1 released, patched nvidia ok, reboot when loading vm, vmware runtime segfault | Leave a reply

Kernel – Pre-Release Tests for 5.6-rc1 ..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 6, 2020 by RGFebruary 6, 2020

Kernel 5.6-rc1 should be out on Sunday, February 9th, but I noticed that early-version-test patches are already available for VMware 15.5.1, here:  https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-15.5.1-k5.6 These patches gave clues to what might affect NVIDIA as well, and I managed to get a GIT version of 5.6-rc1-pre (dated February 5th) to compile OK, and was able to use this.   Of … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, patches, success, VMware | Tagged kernel 5.6-rc1 pre-release, nvidia 440.59 patches, success, testing, vmware 15.5.1 patch | Leave a reply

Ethernet – If you Can’t Wait for 5.4.14, an Unofficial e1000e Patch for 5.4.13..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on January 20, 2020 by RGJanuary 20, 2020

As there is (so far) no sign of an update to the 5.4.x kernel series, I have uploaded a _very unofficial_ patch I had already created for 5.4.13, and I have tested this, and so far it seems to work OK..    It is based on an ‘earlier’ e1000e patch version found on linux/netdev.. https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg623693.html,  and thanks are … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Ethernet, fix, Hacks, Intel, kernel, Linux, Network, Opinion, patches | Tagged disconnect bug, e1000e, fix, kernel 5.4.13, unofficial patch, use at own risk | Leave a reply

Kernel – 5.4-rc1 Released – Odd Quirks with Kernel Symbols

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 30, 2019 by RGSeptember 30, 2019

Kernel 5.4-rc1 is out – a day later than usual, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1909.3/04895.html My tests with VMware and NVIDIA revealed some odd errors/warning relating to kernel symbols.. With the latest NVIDIA (435.21) I got the following: # make make[1]: Entering directory ‘/usr/src/linux-5.4-rc1’ The Module.symvers file is missing, or does not contain any symbols exported … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, patches, VMware | Tagged kernel 5.4-rc1 out, module symvers warnings, nvidia 435.21 fails, patched vmware 15.5 ok | 5 Replies

Fedora – Fix for Broken rpmbuild in Fedora 31.

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 6, 2019 by RGSeptember 6, 2019

Testing Fedora 31 – which is still work-in-progress, of course.. Tried to use # rpmbuild –rebuild to create a missing RPM from a F30 source RPM, and found the following error: ………….. Illegal char ‘)’ (0x29) in: Obsoletes:………. I found a reference to this error in the buglist, but it had been flagged as ‘rawhide’, and closed, … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Fedora, Hacks, Linux, Opinion, quirks | Tagged fedora 31, fix, illegal char, pre release, rpmbuild bug, workaround | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – Fix for 418.43 to Work with Kernel 5.1-rc1..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 19, 2019 by RGMarch 19, 2019

I have done some more investigation into the NVIDIA compile failures with Kernel 5.1-rc1, and now have a – rather inelegant – solution. I found clues to some of the errors in a post relating to nouveau: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/20/50 and the rest were due to content removed from /include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h in Kernel 5.1-rc1: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.1-rc1/source/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h compared to: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0.3/source/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h.  I also … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, patches | Tagged fix for kernel 5.1-rc1, nvidia 418.43, tested, works | 3 Replies

New Install – Dual-Boot, Serial Console, Intel Ethernet Issues – Fixed..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 18, 2019 by RGFebruary 18, 2019

Setting up an old HP8000 desktop small-form-factor system as a crash-and-burn test system, with dual-boot Fedora 29 and Windows 7, on separate drives. First slight gotcha with the Fedora install: The installation utility shows the two disks, the first of which has Windows 7 (sda) and the second – additional – was for the Fedora Linux install … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., dual-boot, Ethernet, Fedora, fix, fixed, grub, Hacks, hardware, Intel, kernel, Linux, linux install, Opinion, quirks, Win 7 | Tagged dual-boot, fedora, fixed, intel ethernet, linux, new install, serial console port, win7 | Leave a reply

Kernel – 4.14.10 Still breaks NVIDIA!

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 29, 2017 by RGDecember 29, 2017

Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.14.10, and was ‘somewhat dismayed‘ – to put it politely – that the NVIDIA breakage introduced in 4.14.9 is still there! ………… /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block.c: In function ‘block_cpu_fault_locked’: /usr/src/linux-4.14.10/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:826:39: error: implicit declaration of function ‘task_stack_page’; did you mean ‘task_stack_vm_area’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] unsigned long __ptr = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(task); \ ^ /usr/src/linux-4.14.10/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:900:26: note: in expansion … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, patches | Tagged 384.98, 4.14.9 patch still works, kernel 4.14.10, linux, nvidia, still breaks nvidia | 5 Replies

KERNEL – 4.14.9 Breaks NVIDIA – and a Fix..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 27, 2017 by RGDecember 27, 2017

Just updated to Kernel 4.14.9, and normally this should not be anything to cause concern, but this time there has been a significant code change made, that has broken NVIDIA (384.98): ………………… /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block.c: In function ‘block_cpu_fault_locked’: /usr/src/linux-4.14.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:826:39: error: implicit declaration of function ‘task_stack_page’; did you mean ‘task_stack_vm_area’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] unsigned long __ptr = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(task); \ ^ /usr/src/linux-4.14.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:900:26: … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., kernel, Linux, NVIDIA | Tagged 4.15 patch fix, compile fail, kernel, kernel 4.14.9, linux, nvidia 384.98 | Leave a reply

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