[LU-5307] e2fsprogs build fails in Centos 7

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Not a Bug
• Priority: Major
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.7.0
• Environment: Centos 7
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: WC Triage
• Reporter: Bob Glossman (Inactive)

Description

e2fsprogs build of master-lustre branch fails in el7/Centos 7. Even after faking out the build to use the RHEL6 spec file with the following patch

--- a/contrib/build-rpm
+++ b/contrib/build-rpm
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ fi
 case "$DISTRO-$RELEASE" in
     RedHatEnterpriseServer-6*) DISTRO=RHEL; RELEASE=6;;
     CentOS-6*) DISTRO=RHEL; RELEASE=6;;
+    CentOS-7*) DISTRO=RHEL; RELEASE=6;;
     Fedora-1[234]) DISTRO=RHEL; RELEASE=6;;    # use the same .spec for now
 esac

the build fails. Plain 'make' works fine, but 'make rpm' fails a couple of the test cases executed on the fly in the build. example errors:

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f_uninit_disable: disable uninit_bg feature: ok
f_bbfile: bad blocks in files: ok
168 tests succeeded	2 tests failed
Tests failed: r_64bit_big_expand r_ext4_big_expand 
make[2]: *** [test_post] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bogl/rb/BUILD/e2fsprogs-1.42.9.wc1/tests'
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bogl/rb/BUILD/e2fsprogs-1.42.9.wc1'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ZDx19k (%check)


RPM build errors:
    bogus date in %changelog: Mon Jul 13 2010 Eric Sandeen <[e-mail]> 1.41.12-5
    bogus date in %changelog: Thu Sep 14 2009 Eric Sandeen <[e-mail]> 1.41.9-3
    bogus date in %changelog: Fri Aug 05 2009 Eric Sandeen <[e-mail]> 1.41.8-6
    bogus date in %changelog: Mon Oct 03 2008 Eric Sandeen <[e-mail]> 1.41.3-2
    bogus date in %changelog: Mon Oct 03 2008 Eric Sandeen <[e-mail]> 1.41.3-1
    bogus date in %changelog: Mon Jan 10 2008 Eric Sandeen <[e-mail]> 1.40.4-4
    bogus date in %changelog: Tue Jan 09 2008 Eric Sandeen <[e-mail]> 1.40.4-3
    bogus date in %changelog: Tue Oct 15 2007 Eric Sandeen <[e-mail]> 1.40.2-9
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ZDx19k (%check)
make: *** [rpm] Error 1

Not a blocker for right now when going for only client builds, but will become critical later on. Working e2fsprogs will be needed for full server functionality.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-5022 support for 3.10 rhel7 linux kernel