Linux Kernel 3.13 RCX has Been Released To Test - Post Your Comments Here!

Well after one of our longest waits I recall between versions, we now have our next RC version to test with the release of Kernel 3.13-rc1 tonight:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/testing/linux-3.13-rc1.tar.xz

And here is what Linus, the smart one, has said about our new kernel:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/22/439

I have the kernel downloaded, but it takes 40 minutes to compile of my Dell Laptop, so I will get back on my success of the new kernel compile and install. So in the mean time please visit my blog on kernel compiling you can find here:

openSUSE and Installing New Linux Kernel Versions - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

Well sorry to say, the kernel compile blows up after 8 minutes, only says FAILED and does not complete. There will not be any kernel 3.13-rc1 testing for me tonight. It is important for me to hear if you got it to compile or not or if you got it installed from the kernel head repo.

Please help me out with your experience.

Thank You,

On 11/22/2013 08:16 PM, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
>
> Well sorry to say, the kernel compile blows up after 8 minutes, only
> says FAILED and does not complete. There will not be any kernel
> 3.13-rc1 testing for me tonight. It is important for me to hear if you
> got it to compile or not or if you got it installed from the kernel head
> repo.

Anything more than FAILED?

The configuration combination of

CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING is not set

CONFIG_TRUSTED_KEYS=m

is reported to fail. The latter one would come from the old configuration, and
if you select the default options, you would get the latter.

The time between release of 3.12 and 3.13-rc1 was nearly 3 weeks, which is
almost one week longer than usual. Linus was traveling without good network
connections, and did not want to do the big merge under those conditions.

Compiled and installed, running fine so far. I built on the linux-next (kernel.opensuse) from 11/21 with corresponding config…

So, before the modification you suggest, the compile ran about 8 minutes on my laptop and the last three log entries existed below:

  CC [M]  fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.o
  LD [M]  fs/xfs/xfs.o
  LD      fs/built-in.o

After the modification, it went about 40 minutes and failed again, with these last entries.

  LD      drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/net/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/built-in.o

So, still not compiling for me.

Thank You,

On 11/23/2013 10:26 AM, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
> After the modification, it went about 40 minutes and failed again, with
> these last entries.
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> LD drivers/net/wireless/built-in.o
> LD drivers/net/built-in.o
> LD drivers/built-in.o
> --------------------
>
>
> So, still not compiling for me.

Why no error messages? Are you using a script to build? What do you see if you
issue a simple “make” in the kernel source directory?

Yes, I am using the sakc bash script and send all info to a log file. I just don’t get an error message in the log file. I will go manual and see what I see in terminal.

Thank You,

With my configuration, which builds only the modules I need, 13.1-rc1 built OK.

Now to boot it.

On 11/23/2013 03:15 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> With my configuration, which builds only the modules I need, 13.1-rc1 built OK.
>
> Now to boot it.

Booted fine, VirtualBox kernel modules (4.3.2) built with no modifications, and
my Windows XP VM came up OK. So far, nothing found.

So taking your lead, I used my Turbo Mode compile and fixed the one issue you told us about and kernel 3.13-rc1 has compiled and is running right now on my Dell Laptop. I did not get VirtualBox 4.3.2 to work however, here is the error I get:

make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2

Does this VB compile error mean anything to you?

Thank You,

On 11/23/2013 04:16 PM, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [module/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
> make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2
>
> --------------------
>
>
> Does this VB compile error mean anything to you?

The errors from make are seldom meaningful. The real error was likely issued
from gcc, but that doesn’t show in your listing. For me,
…/r0drv/memobj-r0drv.o compiled with no errors or warnings. One other thing I
probably do differently from you. Whenever I get a new release of VB, I cd to
/usr/share/virtualbox/src/, do a “chown <my_user>:user -R vboxhost”, then “cd
vboxhost”, and “make && sudo make install” from there. That way I do not ever
need to go through the log files that the official install script makes. For me,
having all the output from the build step right on my screen is better.

On November 29, 2013 kernel 3.13-rc2 was released to test. Here is the link to its location: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/testing/linux-3.13-rc2.tar.xz

Here is what Linus had to say about this release: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/29/385

I have not yet tried to compile this version, but I will.

Thank You,

So I have compiled and loaded kernel 13.3-rc2. OpenSUSE 13.1 came up just fine however, VirtualBox will not install for me into the new kernel, so I must revert back to kernel 3.12.2, also just released.

Thank You,

On 11/30/2013 05:36 PM, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
>
> So I have compiled and loaded kernel 13.3-rc2. OpenSUSE 13.1 came up
> just fine however, VirtualBox will not install for me into the new
> kernel, so I must revert back to kernel 3.12.2, also just released.

Oracle just released VBox 4.3.4. One of the changes was a fix for compilation
errors with kernel 3.13. It works for me.

Here is release candidate three for 3.13
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/testing/linux-3.13-rc3.tar.xz

Well I found kernel 3.13-rc3 released today:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/testing/linux-3.13-rc3.tar.xz

Here is what Linus had to say about this release: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/6/621

I have compiled and loaded without any problems. I found that dkms for VirtualBox has loaded just fine as well. It is time to get to testing.

Thank You,

I’m trying out kernel-3.13-rc3 from kernel/HEAD repository with opensuse factory.

It was working fine and I compiled nvidia 331.20 (the hard way) in rc3-3 with a work round I found.

I decided to update to rc3-4 and although nvidia seems to compile (I get a success message), it won’t load.

Has anyone been able to get nvidia driver to work in kernel-3.13.rc3… ?

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