Install MLNX OFED 4.7 on CentOS 8.0 with kernel 4.20.0 failed

Infrastructure & Networking Software And Drivers
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We have machine installed with CentOS 8.0 with kernel 4.20.0, when we try to install MLNX OFED with “–upstream-libs --add-kernel-support --skip repo --distro RHEL8.0”, we would see the kernel module compilation failure like below,

*** ERROR: ambiguous python shebang in /usr/sbin/sysinfo-snapshot.py: #!/usr/bin/python. Change it to python3 (or python2) explicitly.

error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.0P2KDE (%install)

It appears there’s a bug in the SRPM’s spec file due to python change in CentOS 8,

%global RHEL8 %(if test grep -E '^(ID="(rhel|ol)"|VERSION="8)' /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null | wc -l -eq 2; then echo -n ‘1’; else echo -n ‘0’; fi)

In case we insert “centos” to above line we shall have this fixed.

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Hello Jacky,

Many thanks for posting your question on the Mellanox Community.

To rebuild the MLNX_OFED driver version 4.7 please install the following additional packages. After that you can use the ‘–add-kernel-support’ option to rebuild/install the MLNX_OFED driver.

The required packages for rebuilding the driver for a non-default kernel in Centos 8.0 are the following packages:

  • perl pciutils python2 gcc-gfortran python3-libxml2 tcsh expat glib2 tcl libstdc++ bc tk gtk2 atk cairo numactl pkgconfig ethtool lsof createrepo rpm-build kernel-headers kernel-devel elfutils-libelf-devel python36 python36-devel kernel-rpm-macros

You will notice that some of the packages are already installed by default on the OS.

Example output for comparison:

dnf install perl pciutils python2 gcc-gfortran python3-libxml2 tcsh expat glib2 tcl libstdc++ bc tk gtk2 atk cairo numactl pkgconfig ethtool lsof createrepo rpm-build kernel-headers kernel-devel elfutils-libelf-devel python36 python36-devel kernel-rpm-macros

Updating Subscription Management repositories.

Last metadata expiration check: 1:54:11 ago on Tue 23 Jul 2019 06:45:34 PM EDT.

Package perl-4:5.26.3-416.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package pciutils-3.5.6-4.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package python2-2.7.15-22.module+el8.0.0+2961+596d0223.x86_64 is already installed.

Package gcc-gfortran-8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package python3-libxml2-2.9.7-5.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package tcsh-6.20.00-9.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package expat-2.2.5-3.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package glib2-2.56.4-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package tcl-1:8.6.8-2.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package libstdc+±8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package bc-1.07.1-5.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package tk-1:8.6.8-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package gtk2-2.24.32-4.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package atk-2.28.1-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package cairo-1.15.12-3.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package numactl-2.0.12-2.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package pkgconf-pkg-config-1.4.2-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package ethtool-2:4.16-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package lsof-4.91-2.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package createrepo_c-0.11.0-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package rpm-build-4.14.2-9.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package kernel-headers-4.18.0-80.4.2.el8_0.x86_64 is already installed.

Package kernel-devel-4.18.0-80.4.2.el8_0.x86_64 is already installed.

Package elfutils-libelf-devel-0.174-6.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Package python36-3.6.8-2.module+el8.0.0+2975+e0f02136.x86_64 is already installed.

Package python36-devel-3.6.8-2.module+el8.0.0+2975+e0f02136.x86_64 is already installed.

Package kernel-rpm-macros-116-1.el8.noarch is already installed.

Dependencies resolved.

Nothing to do.

Complete!

Thanks,

Abigail

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Hi Abigail,

I’ve already installed all dependency packages, the problem occurs when the install script trying to compile kernel modules for my system, because there’s no default python on CentOS 8.

Thanks,

Jacky

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Hello Jacky,

Hope you are doing well.

As you have a valid support contract I will be converting this case to a support ticket for easier communication.

Thanks,

Abigail.