gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y'

gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y'

[Henrik Christian Grove]

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?

.Henrik

-- 
"Det er fundamentalt noget humanistisk vås, at der er noget, 
 der hedder blød matematik."
   --- citat Henrik Jeppesen, dekan for det naturvidenskabelige fakultet

Re: gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y'

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 21:22 +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?
> 

I am going to guess the help text is unclear or something, and you have
in your .config:

CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="y"


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Martin Schlemmer


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Re: gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y'

[Sam Ravnborg]

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

Re: gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y'

[Henrik Christian Grove]

Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> writes:

> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 21:22 +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?
>> 
>
> I am going to guess the help text is unclear or something, and you have
> in your .config:
>
> CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="y"

Correct, the help text doesn't seem all that unclear, don't know what I
was thinking when I enter y.

Thanks.

.Henrik

-- 
"Det er fundamentalt noget humanistisk vås, at der er noget, 
 der hedder blød matematik."
   --- citat Henrik Jeppesen, dekan for det naturvidenskabelige fakultet