>From David De Graff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:21:06PM >-0700: > As noted in earlier posts, awk fails with a segfault on make menuconfig when > trying to compile kernel-source-2.4.19. > > I've posted several times on this problem, and have tried all suggestions > given so far. Since my last post I have done many tests on clean VMware > virtual machines running fresh installs of woody. Here's a bug report that I > sent on this issue (below). I'd appreciate any reports of similar problems, > or of successful compiles and how the conditions or methods might differ. ---end quoted text---
This is a shot in the dark... I recently had headaches with lxdialog, the tool used to display the ncurses-based menuconfig menu. It built fine, but always crashed before showing the menu, at about the same point as yours. In my case it was because I was running under a Python script. Once I eliminated Python it worked. Something I was doing in the Python wrapper was getting ncurses upset, which messed up lxdialog. I would test your lxdialog as follows: $ cd /usr/src/linux # or wherever your kernel root is $ scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog --textbox ~/.bashrc 20 70 # any text file You should see a scrollable text display of ~/.bashrc, or whatever text file you supplied. If it crashes you can use normal debugging tools like strace. I'm guessing the awk bit is misleading, but I could be wrong. You may want to check which libncurses you have. Good luck! Steve -- \_O< \_O< \_O< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]