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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Henrik Christian Grove <grove@fsr.ku.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y'
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:24:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051112222425.GC10228@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7gk6fdy5t9.fsf@serena.fsr.ku.dk>

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:22:42PM +0100, Henrik Christian Grove wrote:
> 
> When I try to compile a 2.6.14 kernel on my new laptop, I get the
> following error:
> x40:~/kerne/linux-2.6.14# make
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
> dnsdomainname: Host name lookup failure
>   CHK     usr/initramfs_list
>   /root/kerne/linux-2.6.14/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y'
> make[1]: *** [usr/initramfs_list] Error 1
> make: *** [usr] Error 2
> 
> I simply don't understand what it's trying to do, and google doesn't
> seem to know that error. Can anyone here help?

Root cause is dnsdomainname that fails.
Try to do:
echo domain.com > /etc/dnsdomainname

or similar - depending on distribution.
That should fix the dnsdomainname issue.

	Sam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-12 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-12 20:22 gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y' Henrik Christian Grove
2005-11-12 20:35 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-11-12 22:24 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
     [not found] <58aaG-5AP-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <58ako-5Lz-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-11-12 22:29   ` Henrik Christian Grove

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