Bug 65312 – config-kernel results in * Error updating the environment!

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Keith Jordan 2004-09-25 06:15:24 UTC]

Kernel 2.6.8-r3 gentto-dev-sources
# config-kernel --output-dir=default
results in:
* Writing out changes to /etc/env.d/05kernel
* Running env-update. You should run 'source etc/profile' to update
* your environment, or log out and in again.
* Error updating the environment

Have just gone the koutput route after receiving ebuild fail and advice to use koutput on emerge lirc-0.7.0_pre7-r1 (became aware this bug reported afterwards).

Contents of /etc/env.d/05kernel: (config-kernel -d)
KBUILD_OUTPUT_PREFIX=/var/tmp/kernel-output
AUTO_SYMLINK=no
LINUX_PORTAGE_WRITABLE=no

n.b. I appreciate it is possible I may have broken something, but would argue the errmsg not pointing me to what I might have broken is still a bug (albeit a lesser one than config-kernel being broken).




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. follow instructions in Gentoo documentation for koutput after building 2.6.8 kernel

Actual Results:  
(please see 'details' above)

Expected Results:  
a) Returned 'completion success' type message
b) Subsequently allowed emerge of lirc-0.7.0_pre7-r1 to run error free

[Comment 1 Andreas Kobara 2004-09-25 17:37:19 UTC]

maybe in relation to #65324

[Comment 2 Keith Jordan 2004-09-27 05:19:30 UTC]

Update:
Now suspect problem between chair and keyboard...
Instructions on website not entirely clear but I think I should have run:
# config-kernel --make-koutput=/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-gentoo-r3
..before doing anything else, this command was not run.
Rebuilding kernel, will report back success/failure shortly...

[Comment 3 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-10-09 05:05:05 UTC]

config-kernel is up for reqrite soon.
the koutput stuff has been dropped in its original form.
sorry for the problems.