Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
> Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the
> > "linux" link, then cd inside
> > and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from
> > modules, I do a uname -a
> > and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot
> > directory, and the links are correct,
> > then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried
> > gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Gabriel
>
> There is some more info, if I do :
>
> grep -r 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 linux
>
> I get :
>
> linux/include/linux/autoconf.h:#define CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE
> "2.6.19-gentoo-r4"
> linux/include/config/auto.conf:CONFIG_UNAME_RELEASE="2.6.19-gentoo-r4
>"
>
> but my linux symlink is from the 2.6.20 kernel, not 2.6.19-r4.... :
>
> ls -la
> total 3
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  176 Feb  6 11:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root  496 Jan 31 20:42 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 Aug  3  2006 .keep
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Feb  6 11:29 linux ->
> linux-2.6.20-gentoo drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1296 Feb  6 09:44
> linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1328 Feb  6 11:45
> linux-2.6.20-gentoo
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gabriel

did you do a make menuconfig from scratch, or did you copy an 
old .config over from a prior release?

It looks like the latter may have happened and your .config does not 
agree with what is actually in the source tree.

Either that or you have a 2.6.19-r4 source tree thaqt is named 2.6.20

alan



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