Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread James A. Peltier
On Sun, 16 May 2010, fred smith wrote:

> a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation
> of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email.
> upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had replaced my
> custom sendmail.cf with its own. I don't recall updates to sendmail
> doing that previously,

This did not happen for me and I just completed updating around 500 hosts. 
Each time it created a sendmail.file.rpmnew

> also, around that time my panels stopped unhiding, so they remained in a
> hidden state that I could not recover them from. logged off and on and
> it didn't help, in fact it was worse: no panels at all. so I did a
> reboot and now they seem to be working. I'll have to keep an eagle-eye
> on them.
>
> so far, all else seems well.
>
> Thanks to the whole team who makes Centos possible!
>
>

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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Beta available for public download

2010-05-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/15/2010 11:48 PM, Ron Loftin wrote:
>
> What would be the proper way to request such a thing?

s/request/offer to do this/ and its game on.

Open an issue at bugs.centos.org, with the details, and we can help from 
there on.

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Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/15/2010 08:05 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote:
> My desktop updated without a hitch... well, actually, I ran out of
> disk space after the download completed, so had to clear some space,

yum tries to do some space required estimates before starting the 
process, so its clearly got that wrong in your case here. Would you mind 
filing a bugreport at bugs.centos.org about this issue ? and also add 
details like a 'df -h' and exactly how much yum got things wrong by.

thanks

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Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, fred smith wrote:
>> a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation
>> of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email.
>> upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had replaced my
>> custom sendmail.cf with its own. I don't recall updates to sendmail
>> doing that previously,
>
> Sounds like you installed a sendmail.cf that was not generated from
> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and left the original sendmail.mc unmodified.
> The rpm updated the unmodified sendmail.mc configuration file.  The
> startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date
> sendmail.mc and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.cf.

Got the file names reversed in that last sentence.  Sorry.  Should
read:

   "The startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date
sendmail.cf and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.mc."

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Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread fred smith
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 07:44:37AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> > On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, fred smith wrote:
> >> a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation
> >> of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email.
> >> upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had replaced my
> >> custom sendmail.cf with its own. I don't recall updates to sendmail
> >> doing that previously,
> >
> > Sounds like you installed a sendmail.cf that was not generated from
> > /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and left the original sendmail.mc unmodified.
> > The rpm updated the unmodified sendmail.mc configuration file.  The
> > startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date
> > sendmail.mc and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.cf.
> 
> Got the file names reversed in that last sentence.  Sorry.  Should
> read:
> 
>"The startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date
> sendmail.cf and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.mc."

thanks for the clarification.

that's odd (unless my memory is going--a real possibility).

I've got "fcshome.mc" and "fcshome.cf", the latter made from the former,
and then copied to sendmail.cf. I've done it that way for over a decade.
that way my custom .mc never gets clobbered by a new one from the RPM
package being installed.

nevertheless, your suggestion sounds reasonable. I think I'll try making
a copy of fcshome.mc as sendmail.mc then see if the right thing happens
next time sendmail gets an update. that way, if sendmail.mc gets stepped
on it won't affect my customized one and I can always fall back to the
manual way of doing things.

Thanks again!

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

2010-05-16 Thread Ben Mohilef
I have been unable to find firefox-3.0.19-1 in the 5.5 os or the 5.5 updates.  
Is is being handled separately or was it overlooked in the transition between 
5.4 and 5.5 ?

regards,

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Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread samuel machua
Hi Fred, were you able to fix your mail problem is seem to be having the
same issue.
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:17 -0400, fred smith wrote:
> sendmail.cf

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Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread Les Mikesell
fred smith wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 07:44:37AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>>> On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, fred smith wrote:
 a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation
 of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email.
 upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had replaced my
 custom sendmail.cf with its own. I don't recall updates to sendmail
 doing that previously,
>>> Sounds like you installed a sendmail.cf that was not generated from
>>> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and left the original sendmail.mc unmodified.
>>> The rpm updated the unmodified sendmail.mc configuration file.  The
>>> startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date
>>> sendmail.mc and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.cf.
>> Got the file names reversed in that last sentence.  Sorry.  Should
>> read:
>>
>>"The startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date
>> sendmail.cf and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.mc."
> 
> thanks for the clarification.
> 
> that's odd (unless my memory is going--a real possibility).
> 
> I've got "fcshome.mc" and "fcshome.cf", the latter made from the former,
> and then copied to sendmail.cf. I've done it that way for over a decade.
> that way my custom .mc never gets clobbered by a new one from the RPM
> package being installed.
> 
> nevertheless, your suggestion sounds reasonable. I think I'll try making
> a copy of fcshome.mc as sendmail.mc then see if the right thing happens
> next time sendmail gets an update. that way, if sendmail.mc gets stepped
> on it won't affect my customized one and I can always fall back to the
> manual way of doing things.

This is probably a matter of the timestamps on sendmail.cf vs sendmail.mc which 
until now have coincidentally been right.  If you had not modified your 
sendmail.mc, an updated version in an rpm would overwrite it.  Then the 
makefile 
that runs at sendmail startup would notice that your sendmail.cf was outdated 
and helpfully build you a new one.  All expected behaviour.  If your custom 
version had been named sendmail.mc, the new version would probably have been 
renamed as sendmail.mc.rpmnew instead of overwriting it.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

2010-05-16 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Mohilef  wrote:
> I have been unable to find firefox-3.0.19-1 in the 5.5 os or the 5.5 updates.
> Is is being handled separately or was it overlooked in the transition between 
> 5.4 and 5.5 ?
>

I would recommend updating to FF 3.6 directly from Mozilla.  Of
course, I also recommend using OOo 3.2, directly from openoffice.org.
As a stable enterprise release, CentOS is way behind on a number of
things like these, but the more recent releases are available
elsewhere if you really need them.
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Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/16/2010 12:17 PM, fred smith wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 07:44:37AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>>> On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, fred smith wrote:
 a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation
 of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email.
 upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had replaced my
 custom sendmail.cf with its own. I don't recall updates to sendmail
 doing that previously,
>>>
>>> Sounds like you installed a sendmail.cf that was not generated from
>>> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and left the original sendmail.mc unmodified.
>>> The rpm updated the unmodified sendmail.mc configuration file.  The
>>> startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date
>>> sendmail.mc and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.cf.
>>
>> Got the file names reversed in that last sentence.  Sorry.  Should
>> read:
>>
>> "The startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date
>>  sendmail.cf and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.mc."
>
> thanks for the clarification.
>
> that's odd (unless my memory is going--a real possibility).
>
> I've got "fcshome.mc" and "fcshome.cf", the latter made from the former,
> and then copied to sendmail.cf. I've done it that way for over a decade.
> that way my custom .mc never gets clobbered by a new one from the RPM
> package being installed.

That sets you up for the problem you had.  The startup script for sendmail
runs /etc/mail/make, which will rebuild out-of-date files based on
timestamps.  You've just been lucky until now.  Either the sendmail update
contained a sendmail.mc file with a timestamp older than your custom
sendmail.cf, or there were enough changes to your system that you rebuilt
your custom file anyway.

> nevertheless, your suggestion sounds reasonable. I think I'll try making
> a copy of fcshome.mc as sendmail.mc then see if the right thing happens
> next time sendmail gets an update. that way, if sendmail.mc gets stepped
> on it won't affect my customized one and I can always fall back to the
> manual way of doing things.

That's certainly the safest way to do it, but really, the only way your
customized sendmail.mc would get replaced is if the new sendmail were
somehow incompatible with the original sendmail.mc.  The update procedure
would then save your customized file as sendmail.mc.rpmsave and install a
new sendmail.mc, that rather than leaving your almost certainly
incompatible file in place.

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[CentOS] How to create a printer that prints directly to a file?

2010-05-16 Thread Bryan Berry
I am trying to learn how to share printers using samba. I am doing most of
my experiments at home w/ libvirt and where there are no printers.

How can I set up a printer device that just prints to a file on my system?
That would really help me in my experiments.
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Re: [CentOS] How to create a printer that prints directly to a file?

2010-05-16 Thread cornel panceac
2010/5/16 Bryan Berry 

> I am trying to learn how to share printers using samba. I am doing most of
> my experiments at home w/ libvirt and where there are no printers.
>
> How can I set up a printer device that just prints to a file on my system?
> That would really help me in my experiments.
>

try this:

 http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/61826

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Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Karanbir Singh  wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 08:05 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote:
>> My desktop updated without a hitch... well, actually, I ran out of
>> disk space after the download completed, so had to clear some space,
>
> yum tries to do some space required estimates before starting the
> process, so its clearly got that wrong in your case here. Would you mind
> filing a bugreport at bugs.centos.org about this issue ? and also add
> details like a 'df -h' and exactly how much yum got things wrong by.
>
> thanks

I can give a current 'df -h' but, unfortunately, I didn't write down
any specifics while updating.

Here's what I currently have.

[r...@localhost ~]$ df -h
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
35G   30G  3.4G  90% /
/dev/hda1 97M   37M   56M  40% /boot
tmpfs502M  0  502M   0% /dev/shm

The issue came up *after* I had downloaded all the update files. My
used space was 99%, approximately 230 Megs were shown available at /.
There was no memory available in my tmpfs directory/partition.

I believe yum kicked me out of the update process. There were a lot of
messages without line breaks -- filled up the screen. When I cleared
about 3 Gigs of memory and re-ran 'yum update' it started back up
where I left off and finished the updated without issue..

If you think that I have enough information to file a bug report I'll
go ahead and do that.

Thanks again.

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[CentOS] OO and Firefox

2010-05-16 Thread Frank Cox

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:07 -0700, MHR wrote:
> 
> I would recommend updating to FF 3.6 directly from Mozilla.  Of
> course, I also recommend using OOo 3.2, directly from openoffice.org.

I use OO 3.2 from openoffice.org but I have never been able to find an
x86_64 version of Firefox on the Mozilla website.

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Re: [CentOS] OO and Firefox

2010-05-16 Thread James Hogarth
To my knowledge they don't build that version. The ff I use on systems that
need ff 3.6 is the one from mark Harris's repo.

http://www.mharris.ca/mharris-yumrepo.html

James

On May 16, 2010 9:56 PM, "Frank Cox"  wrote:


On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:07 -0700, MHR wrote:
>
> I would recommend updating to FF 3.6 directly from Mozilla.  Of
> course, I also recommend using OOo 3.2, directly from openoffice.org.

I use OO 3.2 from openoffice.org but I have never been able to find an
x86_64 version of Firefox on the Mozilla website.

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Re: [CentOS] OO and Firefox

2010-05-16 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Frank Cox  wrote:
>
> I use OO 3.2 from openoffice.org but I have never been able to find an
> x86_64 version of Firefox on the Mozilla website.
>

I just ran my FF and here's what it says in Help->About:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2)
Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

I think with SeaMonkey version 2.0+ and FF 3.5+, they integrated the
64-bit builds into the main release, so you get what your CPU needs.
Just guessing, but there it is.

OOo also recently incorporated proper 64-bit builds that work (as of
3.1, I think - I had problems with earlier 64-bit "builds").

64-bit builds are catching on, finally, with the advent of cheap
64-bit CPUs (like mine - the quad-core Athlon II X4 - $95 retail).
All AMD Athlon IIs and the whole line of Intel multi-core CPUs is
making 64-bit more commonplace, especially in business.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

2010-05-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/16/2010 06:34 PM, Ben Mohilef wrote:
> I have been unable to find firefox-3.0.19-1 in the 5.5 os or the 5.5 updates.
> Is is being handled separately or was it overlooked in the transition between 
> 5.4 and 5.5 ?


Some of the updates are still due, including the centosplus kernels. You 
should be able to see them all in place by Monday the 17th midday'ish ( 
UTC )

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Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-16 Thread Robert


On 05/15/2010 05:05 PM, Ned Slider informed us:
> Robert wrote:
>
>>  
> 
>
>
>> Only disappointment so far is that lm_sensors still doesn't grok the AMD
>> K-10 thermal sensors - a situation I grumble about even as I file it in
>> the "beggars can't be choosers" folder.
>>
>>  
> That's because your kernel does not have a k10temp driver - it was only
> introduced into the mainline kernel around 2.6.32. There is a backported
> driver in ELRepo:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-k10temp
>
> yum install kmod-k10temp
>
> Red Hat did do a huge backport refresh of the /hwmon tree in el5.5, but
> they pulled from around kernel-2.6.26 which was before k10temp made it
> into the mainline kernel.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
Indeed! Many thanks.
It hasn't helped yet but it will as soon as I get the yum-priorities 
straight.  I'm pretty skiddish -- if not downright paranoid -- about 
repo mixing and I'm using all due caution before allowing yum to replace 
my existing lm_sensors-2.10.7-9.el5.i386 with the pre-requisite
lm_sensors-2.10.8-2.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm.

Thanks again to you and to Yves, who also responded.

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Re: [CentOS] Problems after update to 5.5

2010-05-16 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 12:27 +0100, Colin Coles wrote:
> Hi,
>  I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on 
> 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I 
> revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers?

I just updated a machine and also got a hang at udev. When I revert to
kernel 2.6.18-164 it works fine. It appears to be a hard hang. Caps lock
and num lock have no effect and I have to hit the reset button.

I tried increasing udev log level to debug and it did not hang. I
reduced the log level to info and it still did not hang. However, when I
start X, esd seems to get stuck in a loop on a short segment of audio.
If I kill esd, the desktop will finish initializing. Logging out of X
also hung, but killing X manually worked. I have reverted to the old
kernel.

Linus


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Re: [CentOS] How to create a printer that prints directly to a file?

2010-05-16 Thread Bryan Berry
thanks a lot cornel, i will try that out

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:49 PM, cornel panceac  wrote:

>
>
> 2010/5/16 Bryan Berry 
>
> I am trying to learn how to share printers using samba. I am doing most of
>> my experiments at home w/ libvirt and where there are no printers.
>>
>> How can I set up a printer device that just prints to a file on my system?
>> That would really help me in my experiments.
>>
>
> try this:
>
>  http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/61826
>
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[CentOS] rsync - dirs and symlinks only, not contents

2010-05-16 Thread aurfalien

Hi all,

I have a need to copy only dirs, subdirs and sym links only without  
the need to copy contents.


I originally used the following test to observe behavior;

rsync -a -f"+ */" -f"- *" source destination

So I noticed that dirs/subdirs were copied but without contents as  
desired.


I have several sym links (dir sym links) that I would also to to copy  
over.


I tried this;

rsync -a -f"+ */" -f"- * -l" source destination

Although my sym links show, they are broken.

Any thoughts on how to copy dirs, subdirs and sym links only w/o  
contents?


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Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread fred smith
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:56:58PM -0400, samuel machua wrote:
> Hi Fred, were you able to fix your mail problem is seem to be having the
> same issue.
> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:17 -0400, fred smith wrote:
> > sendmail.cf

Yes, something in the 5.5 update probably put a new sendmail.mc or
sendmail.cf on my system and since my customized one was named fcshome.mc
the new one was used instead.

So, if you've got a customized sendmail.mc (or .mc, rather) you
should rebuild the cf from it (while in /etc/mail, as root):

make .cf

then copy that .cf file over sendmail.cf,
then restart sendmail:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

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Re: [CentOS] Problems after update to 5.5

2010-05-16 Thread JohnS

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 20:10 -0400, C Linus Hicks wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 12:27 +0100, Colin Coles wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on 
> > 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I 
> > revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers?
> 
> I just updated a machine and also got a hang at udev. When I revert to
> kernel 2.6.18-164 it works fine. It appears to be a hard hang. Caps lock
> and num lock have no effect and I have to hit the reset button.
> 
> I tried increasing udev log level to debug and it did not hang. I
> reduced the log level to info and it still did not hang. However, when I
> start X, esd seems to get stuck in a loop on a short segment of audio.
> If I kill esd, the desktop will finish initializing. Logging out of X
> also hung, but killing X manually worked. I have reverted to the old
> kernel.
---
I am just wondering if any of you guys with the udev hang problem have
tried:
rpm -e the new kernel?  Then try to reinstall it via yum install.  You
should delete the new kernel from /var/cache/yum first.

Just a point in why I say that is I have seen several machines that have
yummed corrupt packages and bad repo metadata.  After pegging yum to
pull from a distinct mirror the problem has gone away.

John

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Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

2010-05-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 15.05.2010, 09:04 +0700 schrieb David Suhendrik:
> Thanks for the help, a solution to this problem is to update the bios, 
> and after using the newest version of bios I can use AHCI mode on the 
> sata controller, and indeed this is the problem.
> 
> But I had to install windows server to update the bios, then installed 
> again using Linux.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> David
> http://blog.pnyet.web.id
> 

Usually you can download a bootable CD Image from HP for BIOS updates. 

Chris


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Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

2010-05-16 Thread John R Pierce
David Suhendrik wrote:
> Thanks for the help, a solution to this problem is to update the bios, 
> and after using the newest version of bios I can use AHCI mode on the 
> sata controller, and indeed this is the problem.
>
> But I had to install windows server to update the bios, then installed 
> again using Linux.
>   

you can put most windows-only flash updaters and such on a USB stick or 
CD with Hirens Boot or similar, and run them from there.
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[CentOS] centos release 5.5 issue

2010-05-16 Thread Philip Manuel
Hi

One of our developers has come across an issue with the new release. He 
provided this piece of code to show the problem:-

cat failure.c
#include 

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
return 0;
}

gcc failure.c
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:169: error: expected declaration 
specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘u32’
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:169: error: expected declaration 
specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘u32’
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:169: error: expected declaration 
specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘u32’
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h: In function ‘rdmsr_on_cpu’:
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:171: error: ‘l’ undeclared (first use in 
this function)
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:171: error: (Each undeclared identifier is 
reported only once
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:171: error: for each function it appears in.)
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:171: error: ‘h’ undeclared (first use in 
this function)
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:171: error: ‘msr_no’ undeclared (first use 
in this function)
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:171: error: invalid lvalue in asm output 0
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:171: error: invalid lvalue in asm output 1
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h: At top level:
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:173: error: expected declaration 
specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘u32’
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:173: error: expected declaration 
specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘u32’
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:173: error: expected declaration 
specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘u32’
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h: In function ‘wrmsr_on_cpu’:
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:175: error: ‘msr_no’ undeclared (first use 
in this function)
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:175: error: ‘l’ undeclared (first use in 
this function)
/usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h:175: error: ‘h’ undeclared (first use in 
this function)


Anyone else seen this or found a bug with these function definitions ?

Thanks

Phil

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