Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ivan Kossev" <> | Subject | Bug report | Date | Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:50:01 +0300 |
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=koi8-r" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I come in peace!<BR>This is a bug report and I hope you won't get irritated<BR>(because most probably you already know about that bug).<BR>So, here is the exact output of "make menuconfig" from<BR>the "SuSE Linux 6.1" distribution:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR> Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's<BR> configuration files and is unable to continue. <BR> Here is the error report:<BR> <BR> Q> scripts/Menuconfig: MCmenu29: command not found<BR> <BR> Please report this to the maintainer <<A href="mailto:mec@shout.net">mec@shout.net</A>>.<BR> You may also send a problem report to <<A href="mailto:linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu">linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu</A>>.<BR> <BR> Please indicate the kernel version you are trying to configure and<BR> which menu you were trying to enter when this error occured.<BR> <BR> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Now you see why I decided to send a report - you asked me to.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The kernel version is 2.2.7.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was trying to enter the "Sound" submenu (form the main menu).</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If this information will be of any use, I have a poor hardware as follows:<BR> CPU K5-90 ; EDORAM 16Mb ; MB i430VX ;<BR> hda=WD1.2Gb ; hdb=CD Mitsumi 8x ; Video S3Trio64UV+ ;<BR> ISA Sound ESS1869 ; PCI LAN Winbond 10Mb/s ; ttyS0=MS Mouse ; <BR> No modem :(<BR> <BR>I'll describe the circumstances under which this happened.<BR>Here is exactly what I did:<BR> - Logged on as "root" on tty1 and tty2;<BR> - Changed to "/usr/src/linux" on tty1;<BR> did the same on tty2;<BR> - Launched "make menuconfig" on tty1; did the same on tty2 but<BR> BEFORE the init-process on tty1 had finished. This resulted<BR> in gcc compiling the same things at the same time on both<BR> consoles. I suppose this has "contributed" to the crash...;<BR> - Loaded a configuration file on each console. The files were<BR> different. I wanted to compare them manually for some reason;<BR> - Switched between tty1 and tty2 many times and entered/exited the<BR> submenus to see the differences between the two configurations;<BR> - When I reached the "Sound" submenu (which is towrds the end) I<BR> tried to enter it (on tty1) and then the error occured. On tty2<BR> everything went on OK. I exited and wrote down the error message.<BR> <BR>Apparently that bug is not a permanent one, because I had done such a<BR>"manual file compare" before and I did it again later, but the crash<BR>happened only once.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>...btw on that special occasion I also noticed another strange effect<BR>but didn't pay attention to it until later (until now):<BR>Sometimes (rarely), just after I had entered a submenu on one of the<BR>consoles, I had to press "Enter" TWICE on the other console to enter<BR>the same menu because the first "Enter" just refreshed the screen...</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>---------------------------------------------<BR>Now follow the configurations which I loaded.<BR>The commented (#) lines are removed.<BR>---------------------------------------------<BR>This one I loaded on tty1:<BR>--------------------------<BR>CONFIG_CONFIGLANG_ENGLISH=y<BR>CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y<BR>CONFIG_M586=y<BR>CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y<BR>CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y<BR>CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y<BR>CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y<BR>CONFIG_MODULES=y<BR>CONFIG_KMOD=y<BR>CONFIG_NET=y<BR>CONFIG_PCI=y<BR>CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y<BR>CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y<BR>CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y<BR>CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y<BR>CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y<BR>CONFIG_SYSCTL=y<BR>CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m<BR>CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y<BR>CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y<BR>CONFIG_PARPORT=m<BR>CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m<BR>CONFIG_PNP=y<BR>CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y<BR>CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m<BR>CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m<BR>CONFIG_PACKET=y<BR>CONFIG_NETLINK=y<BR>CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y<BR>CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y<BR>CONFIG_FIREWALL=y<BR>CONFIG_UNIX=y<BR>CONFIG_INET=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y<BR>CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y<BR>CONFIG_IPV6=m<BR>CONFIG_IPX=m<BR>CONFIG_SPX=m<BR>CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y<BR>CONFIG_DUMMY=y<BR>CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y<BR>CONFIG_NET_EISA=y<BR>CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=y<BR>CONFIG_PLIP=m<BR>CONFIG_PPP=m<BR>CONFIG_SLIP=m<BR>CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y<BR>CONFIG_VT=y<BR>CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y<BR>CONFIG_SERIAL=y<BR>CONFIG_RTC=y<BR>CONFIG_FAT_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_JOLIET=y<BR>CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_PROC_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_CODA_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_NFS_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_NFSD=m<BR>CONFIG_SUNRPC=m<BR>CONFIG_LOCKD=m<BR>CONFIG_SMB_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y<BR>CONFIG_NCP_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_NCPFS_MOUNT_SUBDIR=y<BR>CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS=y<BR>CONFIG_NCPFS_EXTRAS=y<BR>CONFIG_NLS=y<BR>CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y<BR>CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m<BR>CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855=m<BR>CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y<BR>CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5=m<BR>CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y<BR>CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y<BR>CONFIG_SOUND=m<BR>CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m<BR>CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m<BR>CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m<BR>CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS=m</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--------------------------<BR>This one I loaded on tty2:<BR>--------------------------<BR>CONFIG_CONFIGLANG_ENGLISH=y<BR>CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y<BR>CONFIG_M586=y<BR>CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y<BR>CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y<BR>CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y<BR>CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y<BR>CONFIG_MODULES=y<BR>CONFIG_KMOD=y<BR>CONFIG_NET=y<BR>CONFIG_PCI=y<BR>CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y<BR>CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y<BR>CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y<BR>CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y<BR>CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y<BR>CONFIG_SYSCTL=y<BR>CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m<BR>CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y<BR>CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m<BR>CONFIG_PARPORT=m<BR>CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m<BR>CONFIG_PNP=y<BR>CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y<BR>CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m<BR>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m<BR>CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m<BR>CONFIG_PACKET=m<BR>CONFIG_NETLINK=y<BR>CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y<BR>CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y<BR>CONFIG_FIREWALL=y<BR>CONFIG_UNIX=y<BR>CONFIG_INET=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y<BR>CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y<BR>CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y<BR>CONFIG_IPV6=m<BR>CONFIG_IPX=m<BR>CONFIG_SPX=m<BR>CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y<BR>CONFIG_DUMMY=m<BR>CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y<BR>CONFIG_NET_EISA=y<BR>CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=y<BR>CONFIG_PLIP=m<BR>CONFIG_PPP=m<BR>CONFIG_VT=y<BR>CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y<BR>CONFIG_SERIAL=m<BR>CONFIG_RTC=y<BR>CONFIG_FAT_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_JOLIET=y<BR>CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_PROC_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y<BR>CONFIG_CODA_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_NFS_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_NFSD=m<BR>CONFIG_SUNRPC=m<BR>CONFIG_LOCKD=m<BR>CONFIG_SMB_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y<BR>CONFIG_NCP_FS=m<BR>CONFIG_NCPFS_MOUNT_SUBDIR=y<BR>CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS=y<BR>CONFIG_NCPFS_EXTRAS=y<BR>CONFIG_NLS=y<BR>CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y<BR>CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m<BR>CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855=m<BR>CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m<BR>CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5=m<BR>CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y<BR>CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y<BR>CONFIG_SOUND=m<BR>CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m<BR>CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m<BR>CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m<BR>CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS=m</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>I have three boring questions. Although I know you are not<BR>the ones who must answer them I feel a desire to ask:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. The kernel compiled with the first configuration seems not<BR> to see the COM ports. My mouse is gone and I want it back.<BR> That's why I began comparing the two configurations (and met<BR> the bug) but didn't find any differences concerning serial<BR> ports. What should(not) I compile into the kernel to fix that?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. The kernel compiled with the second configuration says on shutdown:<BR> "shutting down at daemon<BR> Empty pid file /var/run/atd.pid for /usr/sbin/atd failed".<BR> Is this a matter to worry about? If it is - should I disable the at<BR> daemon? If not - how to get rif of the "failed" error.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. Kernels compiled with both configurations say that they cannot<BR> mount devpts (at boot time) because some module cannot be found.<BR> I removed the corresponding line in fstab and "solved" the problem.<BR> Have I done wrong? If yes - what (the hell) should I compile into<BR> the kernel to really solve the problem.<BR> <BR>I've confessed my sins. I feel better now :)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope I didn't waste your time.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bye!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>P.S. I've sent the same mail to <<A href="mailto:mec@shout.net">mec@shout.net</A>> too.<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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