Re: make menuconfig and 2.4.22-pre8

From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett@verizon.net)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 12:42:16 EST


On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:15, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I can't make menuconfig with a 2.4.22-pre8 Kernel.
>
>This is what I did:
>
>grisey:/usr/src# tar -xjf ~orm/install/linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2
>grisey:/usr/src# rm -f linux

you are out of order with the above 2 lines. Remove the link first,
then unpack and rename the new kernel.

>grisey:/usr/src# ln -s linux-2.4.21 linux
>grisey:/usr/src# patch -p0 < patch-2.4.22-pre8 2>&1 \
>
>> patch-2.4.22-pre8.log
>
>grisey:/usr/src# cd linux
>grisey:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
>rm -f include/asm
>( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
>make -C scripts/lxdialog all
>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/scripts/lxdialog'
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/scripts/lxdialog'
>/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
>Using defaults found in .config
>Preparing scripts: functions, parsing
>
><...>
>
>(about 3 minutes of awk and kswapd constantly swapping, making the
>whole system extremely unresponsive)
>
>and then:
>
>Beendet
>Awk died with error code 143. Giving up.
>make: *** [menuconfig] Fehler 1
>grisey:/usr/src/linux#
>
>
>With the vanilla kernel 2.4.21 there are no problems at all.
>
>Anybody interested in the patch log?
>
>--
>Orm
>-
>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe
> linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jul 31 2003 - 22:00:29 EST