Bug 130738 – app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3 - vmware-config.pl - error with compiling kernel module

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tomas Srnka 2006-04-21 08:02:02 UTC]

app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3:
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
/bin/sh: scripts/genksyms/genksyms: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r7'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/xgl-testing"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cli crypt cups dri dvd eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif glitz gpm gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb virtualization xine xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-04-21 08:19:16 UTC]

Ehh... is your kernel configured properly?  It doesn't look like it.

What does "uname -a" show and what does "readlink /usr/src/linux" show?

[Comment 2 Tomas Srnka 2006-04-21 12:04:43 UTC]

Created attachment 85133 [details]
My linux(kernel) config file

[Comment 3 Tomas Srnka 2006-04-21 12:05:53 UTC]

I think, it's correct. I attached my .config file.
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  root       22 Apr 10 18:44 linux -> linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r7
Linux obelisk64 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 #1 Sun Apr 16 14:28:50 CEST 2006 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

[Comment 4 Tomas Srnka 2006-04-21 12:17:17 UTC]

Now, it works :). I had to run 'make modules_prepare' in /usr/src/linux. Can you please make a patch for this?

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-04-22 07:50:33 UTC]

No, I really can't.

See, your kernel configuration was not prepared properly.  Likely, you had run a make clean (or something similar) in your kernel sources directory.  This isn't something that we can possibly be expected to account for.  Had you tried to build *any* kernel modules, they would have failed.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you got it resolved.  =]