Well, the conclusion that this ran fine with kernel-source-2.4.18 was wrong. It gives a similar error but then continues on to the initial ncurses-based config screen.
The error is: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/scripts/lxdialog' /bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in Using defaults found in .config Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 1337 Segmentation fault awk "$1" Awk died with error code 139. Giving up. ....scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu3: line 123: syntax error: unexpected end of file .done. Thanks for any ideas, Dave De Graff ----- Original Message ----- From: "David De Graff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 12:48 AM Subject: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel > 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] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]