[Xymon] Can't check kernel version on arm64 systems

[Jaap Winius]

Hi Christoph,

Thanks for your reply. I tried applying your patch to  
/usr/lib/xymon/client/ext/libs (and then changing 'armhf' to 'arm64'),  
but alas: the situation remains unchanged. Should something else be  
added as well?

The current kernel image on this Debian 11 Odroid system is called  
/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.277-arm64 in case you're interested.

Cheers,

Jaap


Quoting Christoph Zechner <zechner at vrvis.at>:

> Hi,
>
> we had the same problems on our pi, my colleague came up with this  
> patch for the libs [1] check:
>
> --- libs.orig
> +++ libs
> @@ -73,6 +73,11 @@
>      if (-x '/usr/bin/dpkg' and `dpkg --print-architecture` =~ /sparc/) {
>          $kernel_image_read_command = "zcat '$newest_kernel_image' |  
> strings";
>      }
> +    if (-x '/usr/bin/dpkg' and `dpkg --print-architecture` =~ /armhf/) {
> +        my $offset = `grep --only-matching --byte-offset --binary  
> --text '\x1f\x8b' '$newest_kernel_image' 2>/dev/null| head -1 | cut  
> -f 1 -d :`;
> +        $offset =~ s/\n//g;
> +        $kernel_image_read_command = "dd if='$newest_kernel_image'  
> skip=1 bs=$offset 2>/dev/null | gunzip 2>/dev/null | strings";
> +    }
>      $kernel_image_read_command .=
>          " | egrep '^$kernel_image_release|^Linux version '";
>
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> Cheers
> Christoph
>
>
>
> [1] /usr/lib/xymon/client/ext/libs
>
>
>
>
> On 28/07/2022 11:46, Jaap Winius via Xymon wrote:
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