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Bug 1305725 - FTBFS: Depmod failure during build on ppc64le
Summary: FTBFS: Depmod failure during build on ppc64le
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: ppc64le
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks: PPCTracker F-ExcludeArch-ppc64le, PPC64LETracker
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Reported: 2016-02-09 01:31 UTC by Karsten Hopp
Modified: 2016-02-25 19:41 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-02-25 19:41:40 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Karsten Hopp 2016-02-09 01:31:20 UTC 
Description of problem:
kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24 fails to build on ppc64le (succeeds on ppc64):

 + depmod -b . -aeF ./System.map 4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le
Depmod failure
+ '[' -s depmod.out ']'
+ echo 'Depmod failure'
+ cat depmod.out
depmod: WARNING: /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le/./lib/modules/4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le/kernel/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.ko needs unknown symbol .TOC.
depmod: WARNING: /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le/./lib/modules/4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le/kernel/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.ko needs unknown symbol .TOC.
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ppc-koji build --scratch f24 kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.src.rpm
2.
3.

Actual results:
http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3124225

Expected results:


Additional info:
kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git3.1.fc24 fails with the same error.

Backing out the patch from https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/17/24  (included in patch-4.5-rc2.xz) fixes this issue
Comment 1 Peter Robinson 2016-02-09 16:06:34 UTC 
Commit c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 was what caused this failure

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/17/24
Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2016-02-24 18:36:20 UTC 
this issue had been fixed in kernel-4.5.0-0.rc3.git0.2.fc24 up to kernel-4.5.0-0.rc4.git3.1.fc24 and is now back again in kernel-4.5.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc24:

http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3166528
Comment 3 Peter Robinson 2016-02-25 19:41:40 UTC 
Fixed with kmod-22-4.fc24 plus kernel built against it
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