Compiling and installing Tux On Ice, need a little help

Question

I have a desktop system and a netbook that I would like to have hibernating when they aren't being used.  The wiki outlined roughly how to accomplish this with this page:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tuxonice
I downloaded from the AUR the kernel26-ice 2.6.38-4 to compile and install.  I managed to compile it (I think ... correctly I hope) but every time I try to get it installed with "mkinitcpio -p kernel26-ice.preset" the build fails with these errors:
[root@blackyunzi ~]# mkinitcpio -p kernel26-ice
/etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-ice.preset: line 5: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-ice.kver: No such file or directory
==> Building image from preset: 'default'
==> WARNING: No kernel version specified. Skipping image `default'
==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
==> WARNING: No kernel version specified. Skipping image `fallback'
[root@blackyunzi ~]# cd ~heather/aur_builds/kernel26-ice/kernel26-ice/
I have tried to CD into the build directory just to make sure I was using the correct file but that has not helped.  I've never compiled my own kernel before today and I'm stymied as to what I'm doing wrong.  If it matters, I compiled it as a regular user in the folder where I downloaded it to.  The contents of my build directory:
[heather@blackyunzi kernel26-ice]$ ls -al kernel26-ice
total 117308
drwxr-xr-x 2 heather heather 4096 Jul 27 19:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 heather heather 4096 Jul 27 19:08 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 236395 Apr 21 05:12 2.6.38.3-sched-bfs-401.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 125982 May 20 18:27 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 120300 May 20 18:27 config.x86_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 40977284 Jul 27 19:47 kernel26-ice-2.6.38-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 665 Jul 27 19:45 kernel26-ice.install
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 3111082 Jul 27 20:01 kernel26-ice.preset
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 74739098 Mar 14 19:40 linux-2.6.38.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 186457 Jun 2 19:36 patch-2.6.38.8.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 12794 Jun 7 02:14 PKGBUILD
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 451933 Apr 3 15:36 reiser4-for-2.6.38.patch.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 heather heather 129795 May 4 18:30 tuxonice-3.2-for-2.6.38.patch.bz2
[heather@blackyunzi kernel26-ice]$
The makepkg file shows that I only changed one setting, the "-j4" bit:
# /etc/makepkg.conf
# SOURCE ACQUISITION
#-- The download utilities that makepkg should use to acquire sources
# Format: 'protocol::agent'
DLAGENTS=('ftp::/usr/bin/wget -c --passive-ftp -t 3 --waitretry=3 -O %o %u'
'http::/usr/bin/wget -c -t 3 --waitretry=3 -O %o %u'
'https::/usr/bin/wget -c -t 3 --waitretry=3 --no-check-certificate -O %o %u'
'rsync::/usr/bin/rsync -z %u %o'
'scp::/usr/bin/scp -C %u %o')
# Other common tools:
# /usr/bin/snarf
# /usr/bin/lftpget -c
# /usr/bin/curl
# ARCHITECTURE, COMPILE FLAGS
CARCH="x86_64"
CHOST="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
#-- Exclusive: will only run on x86_64
# -march (or -mcpu) builds exclusively for an architecture
# -mtune optimizes for an architecture, but builds for whole processor family
CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed"
#-- Make Flags: change this for DistCC/SMP systems
## While using the kernel26-ice build CK recommends you ONLY compile this kernel
## with the same number as how many cpu's you have.
## quoting his example: IE you should ONLY do make -j4 on quad core, -j2 on dual core and so on.
MAKEFLAGS="-j4"
# BUILD ENVIRONMENT
# Defaults: BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc color !ccache check)
# A negated environment option will do the opposite of the comments below.
#-- fakeroot: Allow building packages as a non-root user
#-- distcc: Use the Distributed C/C++/ObjC compiler
#-- color: Colorize output messages
#-- ccache: Use ccache to cache compilation
#-- check: Run the check() function if present in the PKGBUILD
BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc color !ccache check)
#-- If using DistCC, your MAKEFLAGS will also need modification. In addition,
#-- specify a space-delimited list of hosts running in the DistCC cluster.
#DISTCC_HOSTS=""
# GLOBAL PACKAGE OPTIONS
# These are default values for the options=() settings
# Default: OPTIONS=(strip docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge)
# A negated option will do the opposite of the comments below.
#-- strip: Strip symbols from binaries/libraries
#-- docs: Save doc directories specified by DOC_DIRS
#-- libtool: Leave libtool (.la) files in packages
#-- emptydirs: Leave empty directories in packages
#-- zipman: Compress manual (man and info) pages in MAN_DIRS with gzip
#-- purge: Remove files specified by PURGE_TARGETS
OPTIONS=(strip docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge)
#-- File integrity checks to use. Valid: md5, sha1, sha256, sha384, sha512
INTEGRITY_CHECK=(md5)
#-- Options to be used when stripping binaries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_BINARIES="--strip-all"
#-- Options to be used when stripping shared libraries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_SHARED="--strip-unneeded"
#-- Options to be used when stripping static libraries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_STATIC="--strip-debug"
#-- Manual (man and info) directories to compress (if zipman is specified)
MAN_DIRS=({usr{,/local}{,/share},opt/*}/{man,info})
#-- Doc directories to remove (if !docs is specified)
DOC_DIRS=(usr/{,local/}{,share/}{doc,gtk-doc} opt/*/{doc,gtk-doc})
#-- Files to be removed from all packages (if purge is specified)
PURGE_TARGETS=(usr/{,share}/info/dir .packlist *.pod)
# PACKAGE OUTPUT
# Default: put built package and cached source in build directory
#-- Destination: specify a fixed directory where all packages will be placed
#PKGDEST=/home/packages
#-- Source cache: specify a fixed directory where source files will be cached
#SRCDEST=/home/sources
#-- Source packages: specify a fixed directory where all src packages will be placed
#SRCPKGDEST=/home/srcpackages
#-- Packager: name/email of the person or organization building packages
#PACKAGER="John Doe <[email protected]>"
# EXTENSION DEFAULTS
# WARNING: Do NOT modify these variables unless you know what you are
# doing.
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.xz'
SRCEXT='.src.tar.gz'
# vim: set ft=sh ts=2 sw=2 et:
Mkinitcpio shows, after stripping out the comments:
MODULES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect usbinput pata scsi sata lvm2 filesystems consolefont"
(no compression options)
Finally, I put the kern26-ice.preset into the /etc/mkinitcpio folder and tried to install it from there but again I met failure.
Apologies for the length but I'm getting frustrated with this issue.
Last edited by MoonSwan (2011-07-28 02:40:58)

Answer 1

MoonSwan wrote:I have a desktop system and a netbook that I would like to have hibernating when they aren't being used.  The wiki outlined roughly how to accomplish this with this page:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tuxonice
I downloaded from the AUR the kernel26-ice 2.6.38-4 to compile and install.
Hm... netbook.
If you don't mind trying bfs and bfq too, then you could give the pf-kernel that is mentioned in the wiki too a try:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50956
It has a repository here:
[pfkernel]
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11734958/$arch
and a thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103462
I'm not quite sure how netbook performance is affected by BFS...
It has the bonus to already be based on 3.0.
Last edited by Cdh (2011-07-28 20:35:50)