Bug 87655

Summary:	Making kernal fails
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Paul McDermott <pmcdermott98>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul McDermott 2005-04-02 04:57:09 UTC

When I try to make kernel 2.6.11-r4 /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh fails early in the build

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
2. Configure the kernel
3. make

Actual Results:  
[3017:/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4]$ make && make modules_install
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  UPD     include/linux/version.h
  SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-i386
  SPLIT   include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
  CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
  MKELF   scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/modpost.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/sumversion.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/mod/modpost
  HOSTCC  scripts/kallsyms
  HOSTCC  scripts/conmakehash
  CC      arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s
  CHK     include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
  UPD     include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
  CC      init/main.o
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  CC      init/do_mounts.o
  CC      init/do_mounts_devfs.o
  LD      init/mounts.o
  CC      init/initramfs.o
  CC      init/calibrate.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  HOSTCC  usr/gen_init_cpio
  CHK     usr/initramfs_list
  /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open
'n'make[1]: *** [usr/initramfs_list] Error 1
make: *** [usr] Error 2


Expected Results:  
Kernel builds correctly

[3019:/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4]$ uname -a
Linux mediacentre 2.6.9-gentoo-r8 #3 Sat Jan 8 01:19:50 GMT 2005 i686 AMD
Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

[3020:/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4]$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.9-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 05:36:05)]
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.2-r7
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dfx 3dnow 3dnowex X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups
emboss encode esd fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit libg++ libwww
lzo mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql ncurses nls
nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime quotes readline rtc
samba sdl spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
userlocales wmf xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-02 06:39:54 UTC

You used "make oldconfig" when transferring your kernel .config over from an older base kernel. You shouldn't do this unless you know what you are doing - its unsafe. make oldconfig is only useful when going from one gentoo revision to another (e.g. 2.6.11-r3 to 2.6.11-r4). Please start from a fresh kernel config and you won't run into this.