kernel rebuild error after upgrade to 5.1A

[Ian Lochray]

I have just upgraded to Tru64 5.1a. During the upgrade and subsequently if I do a doconfig, I get the following errors. Any ideas?
*** PERFORMING KERNEL BUILD ***

*** WARNING ***
An error has occurred during system configuration. A partial listing
of the error log file (/sys/SSIAL10/errs) follows:

Make: Don't know how to make kern/lockinfo.c. Stop.

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Ian,

I found this link:

http://www.blacksheepnetworks.com/security/resources/tru64/1591.html

Regards,

Gideon

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi Ian,

did your update path go something like this?
4.0X -> 5.0A -> 5.1A
?

greetings,

Michael

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi again,

just in case I am right with my question. There is a bug in the update to 5.0A and it is suggested to apply a cdrom patch before updating to 5.1A. If not, date/times may be misinterpreted from cdrom during update and the kernel build fails with a message like your's.

greetings,

Michael

[Johan Brusche · Accepted solution]

The problem is caused by a bug in cdfs.mod in one of the versions you passed along your upgrade path (V4.OG , V5.0 or V5.0A).

The bug makes that all files read from a cdfs filesystem receive the same date.
(1-jan-1970, I believe).

Touching the files in /sys/*/*/*/*/*/*, will cure that problem and after that the kernel will build. (This is also the solution pointed to by the link in the 2nd reply)

Cheers,
Johan.