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 :-) :-)
