Problem : uname -r returns outdated kn version

[broumbroum23]

as of this thread : uname -r giving me wrong kernel version : Fedora, Fedora, 9 it might be an EXTRA_VERSION value in the /usr/src/linux/MakeFile . let's check it out people !!

[jlmoya]

I too have the same problem. I have checked everywhere and I have installed kernel version 2.6.27.37-0.1 but uname returns 2.6.27.19-3.2.

I have even recompiled and reinstalled the kernel with the same result.

Does anyone know where does uname get it version info from?

Thanks.

[ab@novell.com]

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Did you reboot after getting the .37-0.1 patches?

Good luck.





jlmoya wrote:
> I too have the same problem. I have checked everywhere and I have
> installed kernel version 2.6.27.37-0.1 but uname returns 2.6.27.19-3.2.
>
> Does anyone know where does uname get it version info from?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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[jlmoya]

Thanks, yes I did boot after I compiled the kernel and got the same result.

[ab@novell.com]

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You compiled the kernel? For some reason I thought you had just updated
from the repositories. I think there is an option in the kernel
configuration that lets you add a string to your kernel version but I
think it only lets you append to the end; I could be wrong and maybe it
lets you set the entire version and that is not being updated.

Good luck.





jlmoya wrote:
> Thanks, yes I did boot after I compiled the kernel and got the same
> result.
>
>
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[jlmoya]

Got it working even though I'm still not pleased with the solution, apparently the error comes from an outdated VirtualBox driver. What I did was the following:

1. Downloaded and installed the latest version of VirtualBox from url=http://www.virtualbox.org
2. Executed /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as root. Got an error because kernel versions don't match but this procedure uninstalls the old driver.
3. Now this is the part I don't like. I opened yast and updated the coreutils package, plus installed coreutils-debugsource (Wanted to look at the source and understand how uname got its data). After checking uname.c code, I again uninstalled the debug packages (coreutils-debuginfo and coreutils-debugsource).
4. Again executed /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup and it worked. Mainly because uname -r now returns the correct version.

I wish I knew exactly what happened, I guess I should be happy because it's working now.

[Akoellh]

Seems to be a (very rare) bug in coreutils you got hit by.

For people understanding german:

LINUX - openSUSE - [geloest] Installierte Kernelversion stimmt nicht bei uname

[broumbroum23]

thank you.
then coreutils and coreutils-lang must be re-installed... lol

[eumaster]

Hi!

I has similar problem with 'uname -r'

Before I updated opensuse from 10.3 to 11.1.

first time I got 'uname -r' from 10.3 (~2.6.22...), then I removed all modules from /lib/modules/ for 10.3, and got:

# uname -a
Linux gamma 2.6.27.19-3.2-default #1 SMP 2009-10-15 14:56:58 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Real version is:
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.27.37-0.1-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP

Also I removed all virtualbox, kvm modules.

As I understood, 'uname' is a system call from kernel. But I don't understand how to replace the version in kernel?


PS. Main problem for me is: hibernate to disk doesn't work!