The first time that I tried the kernel build from source, I unpacked the kernel source and did all steps as root. That shouldn't cause any permissions problems as far as I can tell. Since getting the suggestion to do the process as a non-root user, I have done all steps including unpacking the kernel source as a non-root user.
The owner of /usr/src is set to user, as is the file kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2. That file is unpacked by the same non root user, and the config file is copied by that user. I run make menuconfig by the same user, and get the same error as I got when the entire process was run as root. I've tested the process with kernel-source-2.4.18, and make menuconfig runs fine with that package. So it looks like there's something different with 2.4.19 that's causing a problem. Thanks, Dave De Graff The error for make menuconfig with kernel-source-2.4.19 is: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/scripts/lxdialog' /bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in Using defaults found in .config Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 1250 Segmentation fault awk "$1" Awk died with error code 139. Giving up. make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "David De Graff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 10:33 PM > Subject: Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel > > > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:48:28PM -0700, David De Graff wrote: > > > This problem persists on multiple attempts, each time starting from a > clean > > > unpack of kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2. > > > > Did you unpack as user? When I was unpacking as root and did "chown -R > > foo:foo *", then I got problem. I also needed to do "chown foo:foo .". > > > > Soundes like permission problem. > > > > > > BTW, my system doesn't seem to have addgrp. This isn't relevant to the > > > > problem, but just thought I would point it out given your revised > > > > instructions above. I used usermod since src was already in > /etc/group. > > > > $ adduser foo src > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
