Where are the kernel headers for 2.6.27.19-3.2.1 ??

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I recently upgraded my opensuse 11.0 to 11.1 without issues. The only thing I had to do was reinstall the NVidia packages.

So I did. In the mean time it apparently downloaded a new kernel, mentioned in the subject. I also upgraded the kernel sources to be conform.

But all the VMWare modules fail after an upgrade (which is completely normal as they have to be rebuild). At the same time I removed VMWare 6.0 and installed 6.5.1 instead. Now when I run VMWare it starts building the modules but it fails because it can only find the kernel headers from the stock opensuse kernel on DVD.

I just checked and added a new update mirror repo (as opensuse has dissapeared from the globe) but all I could find were the files below, from my current running kernel but no header package to find. When I load Yast update is does not show the kernel headers as updatable although I’m running a more recent kernel.

] kernel-debug-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:33 13.6M
] kernel-debug-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i586…> 26-Feb-2009 01:55 1.6M
] kernel-debug-base-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:33 8.0M
] kernel-debug-base-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1…> 26-Feb-2009 01:56 7.0M
] kernel-debug-extra-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:34 5.5M
] kernel-debug-extra-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1…> 26-Feb-2009 01:57 1.2M
] kernel-default-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 19:07 13.0M
] kernel-default-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i58…> 26-Feb-2009 01:58 2.8M
] kernel-default-base-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 19:07 7.7M
] kernel-default-base-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2…> 26-Feb-2009 01:59 6.8M
] kernel-default-extra-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 19:07 5.2M
] kernel-default-extra-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2…> 26-Feb-2009 01:59 1.6M
] kernel-pae-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:54 13.0M
] kernel-pae-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i586.de…> 26-Feb-2009 02:01 2.8M
] kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:54 7.7M
] kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i5…> 26-Feb-2009 02:01 6.9M
] kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:55 5.2M
] kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i…> 26-Feb-2009 02:02 1.6M
] kernel-source-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 16:48 59.9M
] kernel-source-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i586…> 26-Feb-2009 02:08 6.7M
] kernel-syms-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 19:14 1.7M
] kernel-syms-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i586.d…> 26-Feb-2009 02:19 1.5M
] kernel-trace-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:38 13.0M
] kernel-trace-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i586…> 26-Feb-2009 02:19 2.7M
] kernel-trace-base-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:38 7.6M
] kernel-trace-base-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1…> 26-Feb-2009 02:20 6.7M
] kernel-trace-extra-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:38 5.2M
] kernel-trace-extra-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1…> 26-Feb-2009 02:21 1.6M
] kernel-vanilla-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 17:53 23.6M
] kernel-vanilla-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i58…> 26-Feb-2009 02:21 8.8M
] kernel-xen-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 18:10 13.0M
] kernel-xen-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i586.de…> 26-Feb-2009 02:25 1.5M
] kernel-xen-base-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 18:10 6.7M
] kernel-xen-base-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i5…> 26-Feb-2009 02:26 5.7M
] kernel-xen-extra-2.6.27.19-3.2.1.i586.rpm 25-Feb-2009 18:11 4.5M
] kernel-xen-extra-2.6.27.7_2.6.27.19-9.1_3.2.1.i…> 26-Feb-2009 02:26 1.2M

???

I need these headers, but where are they ?
Any advice ?

Thanks.

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Headers don’t need to be upgraded - simply have an up to date kernel-source available.

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Hi
linux-kernel-headers don’t change, the kernel-source and kernel-syms do.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (i586) Kernel 2.6.27.15-2-default
up 8:05, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.30, 0.19
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.35

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Malcolm wrote:
> Hi
> linux-kernel-headers don’t change, the kernel-source and kernel-syms do.

If you use kernel 2.6.X, then the headers will not change for a given X;
however, if you change to X+1, they might.

Larry

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Then there is an issue. I’m not sure which one I was running before (stock DVD kernel) but since the update it is running a new kernel version 2.6.27.19-3.2.1 but when I start VMWare is says that the installed kernel-headers does not correspond to the running kernel.

And this is the problem, I can’t find any other version than the one that is installed on my pc but vmware still refuses.

So I’m completely stuck.

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Hi
Change to root user and run the command vmware to rebuild the modules
against the newer kernel.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (i586) Kernel 2.6.27.15-2-default
up 22:07, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.16, 0.15
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.35

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:\ :X Shame on me …

I indeed upgraded the kernel but the sources were not upgraded and due to the outage of the download server from opensuse some days ago I was not able to upgrade that packages.

Today I upgraded the kernel source and now it compiles and runs just fine.

Kind of weird that vmware complained about the headers being in teh wrong version while in fact it needed the source to be in the same version.

I think that confused me.

Thanks for the help !