From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NpAs1-0003EG-Sb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61619E09AD; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A921E09AD for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96A91B421B for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.485 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.485 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.114, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fIPuT5VWjjEn for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7851B41FB for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:27 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAMaGlktMCpbj/2dsb2JhbACbA3S8Y4R5BIMXh3Q X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,611,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="57872996" Received: from 76-10-150-227.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.150.227]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 09 Mar 2010 20:37:24 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:36:50 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:36:50 -0500 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31 Message-ID: <20100310013650.GA6034@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 4eb50bbc-7499-47db-b43f-cc8a04d4f9f3 X-Archives-Hash: 5de72d339ff0d304cb2e5543f5d78e06 Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" kernels saved me. "production" is 2.6.30-r8. "experimental" is 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one). I set /usr/src/linux to point at 2.6.31-r6 (or 10), copied .config from 2.6.30-r8 and ran "make oldconfig". I got the warnings listed below before the config process started. "make oldconfig" appears to have reset to default values, and it was showing me some settings totally the opposite of what I know I've set. When I ran through "make oldconfig", compiled and rebooted, I got a framebuffer console, which I *KNOW* I haven't selected. And there was a kernel panic because gentoo couldn't find the boot device. I'm enough of a bit-twiddler that I can set up the kernel manually. But I know from past experience that it's a long slow process. Is there any trick to salvage "make oldconfig", before I resort to setting up the kernel "the hard way"? Here's the output from "make oldconfig" up to where it starts asking questions... [d531][root][/usr/src/linux] make oldconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc HOSTCC scripts/basic/hash HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o scripts/kconfig/conf.c: In function 'conf_askvalue': scripts/kconfig/conf.c:105: warning: ignoring return value of 'fgets', declared with attribute warn_unused_result scripts/kconfig/conf.c: In function 'conf_choice': scripts/kconfig/conf.c:307: warning: ignoring return value of 'fgets', declared with attribute warn_unused_result HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2486: scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function 'conf_write': scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:508: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite', declared with attribute warn_unused_result scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function 'conf_write_autoconf': scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:745: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite', declared with attribute warn_unused_result scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:746: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite', declared with attribute warn_unused_result In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2487: scripts/kconfig/expr.c: In function 'expr_print_file_helper': scripts/kconfig/expr.c:1090: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite', declared with attribute warn_unused_result HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig * * Restart config... * * * Performance Counters * Kernel Performance Counters (PERF_COUNTERS) [N/y/?] (NEW) -- Walter Dnes