From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751454Ab0IMFBm (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:01:42 -0400 Received: from tuxonice.net ([74.207.252.127]:41370 "EHLO mail.tuxonice.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750874Ab0IMFBk (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:01:40 -0400 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Message-ID: <4C8DB031.6050008@tuxonice.net> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:01:37 +1000 From: Nigel Cunningham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10pre) Gecko/20100903 Shredder/3.1.4pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc3 - Unable to build: "Error: input truncated" References: <4C8CB5A1.9040500@tuxonice.net> <201009121934.37033.rjw@sisk.pl> <4C8D5D41.90104@tuxonice.net> <20100912201152.a4ada04a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20100912201152.a4ada04a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. On 13/09/10 13:11, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:07:45 +1000 Nigel Cunningham wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On 13/09/10 03:34, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Sunday, September 12, 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >>>> Hi all. >>>> >>>> I'm unable to compile the latest kernel and git bisect isn't helping: >>> >>> Did you try to save .config, run "make distclean" and restore .config? >> >> I hadn't tried that, but had done git reset --hard and make clean >> menuconfig bzImage. Trying distclean doesn't help, I'm afraid. Perhaps I >> should attach my .config. I'm running a 32 bit kernel/distro on a 64 bit >> machine if that makes any difference. > > > Try to strace scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig to see why it is producing > that error message: > > scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig< scripts/mod/empty.o> scripts/mod/elfconfig.h > Error: input truncated > > I guess that the empty.o file is not in the expected format. Yeah. It's zero bytes long. > Who owns that stuff, anyway? I figured the kbuild guys did, which is why I cc'd them. > You should probably post the empty.o file so that interested parties can > try to debug the problem. > > I built the kernel just fine with the .config file that you posted. Okay. So it's probably something specific to Ubuntu Lucid then. I'll see if I can find the time to do a bisection by hand. Nigel