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

[Christoph Zechner]

On 28/07/2022 13:10, Jaap Winius wrote:
> 
> 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?

Hm, in our case (bananapi with armbian), this fixed the issue, maybe it 
needs a little refining with your architecture... :-/

Cheers
Christoph

> 
> 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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