2.6.24 Zen Ubuntu Kernel - Faster, Stable, More Hardware Support

[DirtBitCo]

Hmmh. Never had a problem with make-kpkg clean.
Perhaps you try one more time pulling the sources from git.

EDIT: I just pulled the latest git. It seems to be a general problem. I'll keep you posted.
Meanwhile - try to disable all the wireless stuff under device driver/network device support/wireless lan
and give it one more try.

Okay thanks for checking that out.

Does canonical offer support for things like this?

[soundcheck]

Hi there.

No - you can forget about Canonical support on ZEN.

Have a look at the Wiki please. I updated quite some stuff in there.

With the new instructions you should get your Kernel working.

Cheers

[Tempestx]

Seems that the final version, 2.6.28-zen1, is out now, compiles fine as long as you follow on the wiki

Kernel 2.6.28-rc6-zen1 .config specifics: 1. Under Block layer / IO Schedulers I had to turn off "V(R) I/O schedulers" to get the kernel compiled.

I get the following output now however when ever I try to install anything via the packagemanger:

Setting up linux-image-2.6.28-zen1 (rev1.zen1) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-zen1
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-zen1
 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-zen1) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-zen1.postinst line 583.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-zen1
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-zen1
 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-zen1) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-zen1.postinst line 583.
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-zen1
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 20
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-zen1.postinst line 1181.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.28-zen1 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

What does it mean; how to fix;etc.
Worth noting that that error message would occur for all the versions that I've tried, rc6+ and now the final release.

[soundcheck]

Seems that the final version, 2.6.28-zen1, is out now, compiles fine as long as you follow on the wiki




I get the following output now however when ever I try to install anything via the packagemanger:

Setting up linux-image-2.6.28-zen1 (rev1.zen1) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-zen1
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-zen1
 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-zen1) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-zen1.postinst line 583.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-zen1
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-zen1
 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-zen1) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-zen1.postinst line 583.
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-zen1
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common exited with return code 20
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.28-zen1.postinst line 1181.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.28-zen1 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

What does it mean; how to fix;etc.
Worth noting that that error message would occur for all the versions that I've tried, rc6+ and now the final release.

This has probably nothing to do with the kernel. This is an Ubuntu dkms problem.
I use Ati, I can't help very much here. I am wondering if you need to apply the GPL patch as I described it within the ATI section of the wiki.
You might also have to clean up dkms from NVIDIA stuff.

Cheers

[Tempestx]

I looked into the file and the line that was giving that error message had todo with executing that nvidia file, I removed it and the rest of the script then worked fine.


Also, it seems that the git for zen is not down, but rather the url has changed.

http://git.zen-sources.org/zen.git
git://zen-sources.org/zen/zen.git

Both of these work opposed to the one referenced in the wiki.

[soundcheck]

Also, it seems that the git for zen is not down, but rather the url has changed.
Both of these work opposed to the one referenced in the wiki.

Good to know. I guess they might have changed it again.

[DirtBitCo]

Do zen-kernels work with DKMS?

I can seem to get lirc-modules-source to compile with DKMS (it won't compile with automake either)

[soundcheck]

Do zen-kernels work with DKMS?

I can seem to get lirc-modules-source to compile with DKMS (it won't compile with automake either)

DKMS is beyond the scope of ZEN. Ubuntu is using it.
E.g. FGLRX needs to be patched (GPL) to get it compiled at all. Then DKMS needs to be setup to install fglrx during boot.
Recently Ubuntu introduced an autoinstallation routine to get fglrx installed during boot. This even works for a ZEN-kernel.

So I guess it is a two step apporach.

You might want to check with the guys at zen-sources.org. There are some Ubuntu guys around.

Cheers