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Bug 115383 - after do 'genkernel --menuconfig all' I get err output from genkernel: "ERROR: Load loop support!"
Summary: after do 'genkernel --menuconfig all' I get err output from genkernel: "ERROR...
Status: VERIFIED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2005-12-13 00:17 UTC by ditansu
Modified: 2005-12-13 00:49 UTC (History)
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Description ditansu 2005-12-13 00:17:27 UTC
I do :
#genkernel --menuconfig --oldconfig  all
* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.3.6
* Running with options: --menuconfig --oldconfig all

* Linux Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-di for x86...
* The build-host kernel does not appear to have loop device support.
* Please load loop support before running genkernel!
* ERROR: Load loop support!
....
#cat /var/log/genkernel.log
* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.3.6
* Running with options: --menuconfig --oldconfig all

* Linux Kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-di for x86...
* The build-host kernel does not appear to have loop device support.
* Please load loop support before running genkernel!
* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.3.6
* Running with options: --menuconfig --oldconfig all

* ERROR: Load loop support!
* -- Grepping log... --
* -- End log... --
* Please consult /var/log/genkernel.log for more information and any
* errors that were reported above.
* Report any genkernel bugs to bugs.gentoo.org and
* assign your bug to genkernel@gentoo.org. Please include
* as much information as you can in your bug report; attaching
* /var/log/genkernel.log so that your issue can be dealt with effectively.
*
* Please do *not* report compilation failures as genkernel bugs!

what me do ?

Reproducible: Always
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Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-
gentoo-r2-di i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-di i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
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:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/
config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="... autoconfig candy distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/
distributions/gentoo"
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="ru en"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups curl 
dbus eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome 
gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn imlib java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal 
kdexdeltas kerberos krb4 lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg 
mysql ncurses nls nsplugins ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png 
python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype 
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb utf8 vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib 
linguas_ru linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-13 00:20:00 UTC
> The build-host kernel does not appear to have loop device support.
> * Please load loop support before running genkernel!

This is no bug, please read the messages.
Comment 2 ditansu 2005-12-13 00:39:18 UTC
> * Please load loop support before running genkernel!
how do it ?
#modprobe -l | grep -i loop
#
(I build 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-di whith genkernel, I want change somthing the options 
 now)
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-13 00:48:51 UTC
Bugzilla is not a support forum, use IRC or forums.gentoo.org for such questions. 

modprobe loop, if you are missing CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP support completely, you
need to recompile your kernel manually.
Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-13 00:49:30 UTC
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