Re: SymSearch can cause make nconfig to segfault

Jesse T
2023-11-08T03:06:50Z

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 9:30 PM Vivien Gallinaro
<vivien.gallinaro@free.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> In make nconfig, when I perform a SymSearch (F8) for "x86", I get a
> segfault. It doesn't happen in make menuconfig (/ search).
>
> It doesn't seem to be a simple matter of "too many results" as a
> SymSearch for "fs" does ok.
>
>
> For a fresh 6.6 kernel :
>
> $ cd linux-6.6
> $ make mrproper
> $ make nconfig 2>../blarb
> (<F8> x86 <enter>)
> $ reset

I'm assuming "reset" here means you got put back into your shell and are
resetting the terminal state.

> $ cat ../blarb
>
> gives :
>
> make[2]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:48: nconfig] Segmentation fault
> make[1]: *** [/home/username/linux-6.6/Makefile:697: nconfig] Error 2
> make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2

I can not recreate this error on my machine unfortunately are you
using the tar release?
What distro are you using?

Thanks,
Jesse Taube
>
>
> That's not very helpful, I know… looking up "x86" was not particularly
> useful either! (I was following a wiki referring to x86_sysfb. Before I
> realized it probably doesn't exist any more, I tried to widen the
> search, since I had just come across the deprecation of efi_vars in
> favor of efivar_fs, so to speak.) I hope some one can help the search
> fail gracefully.
>
> Have a nice day,
> VG