[SOLVED] Kernel source is not installed

chenxiongni · 05-07-2012, 07:44 PM

Hi All,

Firstly, i appreciate you spend your time take a look of this message.

I am new in Linxu, especially Centos 5.5. For some reason, we have to use CentOS 5.5 to talk to our Array Server via SAS card. i found out the SAS card driver on internet which is fine. however, when i try to install it by typing command: 'make clean'. i am getting following error:
Kernel source is not installed
make: *** [kernelsrccheck] Error 1

I have dome some research on internet and people suggested to install kernel header and also kernel devel. i have installed all those, as well as gcc. but i am still getting this error.

the version of the linux i am using is: 2.6.18-194.el5

I found out: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linu...r/en/os/SRPMS/

this ftp has kernel source rpm which match up my version. i then downloaded, and installed by command: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.src.rpm

after i done all that, i am still getting the same error message.

below is my ls -la result:

[root@mnf-sales linuxrdac-09.03.0C05.0504]# ls -la /usr/src
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 11 2011 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 8 09:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 11 2011 debug
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 8 10:13 kernels
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 8 09:33 redhat

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[root@mnf-sales linuxrdac-09.03.0C05.0504]# ls -la /usr/src/kernels
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 8 10:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 11 2011 ..
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 8 09:54 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5-x86_64
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 8 10:13 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5-xen-x86_64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 May 8 10:13 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5xen-x86_64 -> 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5-xen-x86_64

Thank you for your help.

Andy

chrism01 · 05-07-2012, 08:18 PM

Lets start by checking what you have

Code:

# check current kernels

uname -a

cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

# check installed kernel rpms
rpm -qa | grep kern

You might also want to look at /etc/modprobe.conf

chenxiongni · 05-07-2012, 09:06 PM

Hi chrism01,

Thank you for your reply.

below is my result:

[root@localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-308.4.1.el5

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep kern
kernel-2.6.18-194.el5
kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5
kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5
kernel-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5

Thank you.

Andy

pinga123 · 05-07-2012, 10:15 PM

Had similar issues in past .
Have a look at following link.http://learnlinuxwithrohan.blogspot....using-yum.html

chenxiongni · 05-08-2012, 01:34 AM

Hi pinga123,

Thank you for replying me.

that web site make my life wonderful easy.

All good now.

Thank you.

Andy