Bug 76335

Summary:	Requirements are inaccurate (kernel >= v3.2 required)
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Michael Janssen <jamuraa>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Michael Janssen 2014-03-18 20:54:23 UTC

In systemd-211, systemd-nspawn doesn't compile with a kernel < v3.2, contrary to what the README says. 

The error I was getting was that LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN is not found, which is introduced first in kernel v3.2

Removing systemd-nspawn references from the Makefile.am and rerunning automake makes it compile fine again. I don't use systemd-nspawn so this workaround worked for me.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2014-03-19 00:15:49 UTC

Fixed in git.

Comment 2 Michael Janssen 2014-03-20 13:11:04 UTC

This bug isn't actually fixed.   

As I noted in the initial report, the LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN was only the error that I was getting.  I worked around by just not compiling systemd-nspawn.  With current git master I still can't compile systemd-nspawn against kernel v3.0:

src/nspawn/nspawn.c: In function 'setup_image':
src/nspawn/nspawn.c:1908:29: error: 'LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/nspawn/nspawn.c:1908:29: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
src/nspawn/nspawn.c: In function 'loop_remove':
src/nspawn/nspawn.c:2314:24: error: 'LOOP_CTL_REMOVE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [src/nspawn/systemd_nspawn-nspawn.o] Error 1

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2014-03-21 03:12:07 UTC

OK, added these missing definitions now too. Please verify.

Comment 4 Michael Janssen 2014-03-24 14:06:22 UTC

Compiles fine on my v3.0 tree now.

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