On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:58:18 -0200 Claudio Roberto França Pereira <spide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not currently at my Gentoo box, sorry for this, but if I don't > post this now I'll probably forget to post it at all. > Anyways, last time I tried upgrading my kernel, I copied my .config > and ran make menuconfig as my main user, but it whined about missing > ncurses libraries or something. After su'ing, everything went better > than expected. > Was that normal behavior? I remember configuring my kernel as user > before. Even compiling it as user. How did you install the kernel sources? If you downloaded them as a normal user you should be able to make menuconfig; make; sudo make install just fine. If portage installed the sources, then you should configure/compile/install as root. The sources are owned by portage (IIRC) and you can't su to that user, leaving only root. Or, try adding yourself to the portage group. Personally I think that's too much effort for zero gain so I always do it as root. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
