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[65.0.93.225]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b207sm6745062ywh.87.2017.12.18.20.06.18 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 20:06:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading kernel with gcc6... use mrproper and not clean To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <89f3a013-b2d3-337d-ca27-d71075360f83@gmail.com> From: Dale Message-ID: <26f03492-7e3d-eb72-ec39-18c19d0bc950@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 22:06:17 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.5.0 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 5b858a5c-dae7-41cb-bffa-077192ec9bf9 X-Archives-Hash: 8160781d3d1acbfd215518f9cf9c04ef Daniel Frey wrote: > On 12/18/17 18:46, Daniel Frey wrote: >> I just thought I'd send this out in case others aren't aware... >> >> I've updated some seven machines now to the new profile and gcc6. Out >> of the seven, four of them had problems rebuilding the kernel which >> led to an outright hang during booting (black screen, no kernel >> panic, just hang.) >> >> I found out `make clean` is not enough, I had to backup my .config, >> use `make mrproper`, restore the .config and run `make >> silentoldconfig` before compiling the kernel and modules. >> >> I am thinking `make clean` didn't remove everything made during the >> compile process and caused some strange race condition somewhere >> while booting (completely guessing here.) >> >> I went back to the three that seemed to be working fine and did the >> mrproper process on them, because if something happens down the line >> I probably won't remember what caused the boot issue. >> >> Dan > > Sigh... from the kernel Makefile: > > # clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules > > The computers in question that were hanging were using external > modules such as nvidia, open-vm-tools modules, vmware modules, etc... > > *smacks head against wall* > > I guess I answered my own question now, and I'll bet that everyone > here knew this already! > > Dan > > I never can remember which is which so I run them both.  If that ever starts to fail, I may see how me using that rm command does with cleaning out stuff.  ROFL  Thanks for the heads up tho.  Dale :-)  :-)