From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751933Ab0IMF1m (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:27:42 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:37349 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750874Ab0IMF1k (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:27:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=krgTYXAa5Tgh5ltcVj6yr02Ap4g/YEit6YLlK79Y9eTDhOt+pc0Q92VbrivBHbe9Rz JR6jTqGyqdVvlX1ZSYs+Ju9tOHkIfeYW6QnaIC3rwTLhVaquWOLF5dTr/Cu8VO1yaE7x +kM5aBblkxSign8jUOof5TzY0nBLXfAWQjK5Q= Message-ID: <4C8DB674.5040200@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:28:20 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nigel Cunningham CC: Randy Dunlap , "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> <4C8DB031.6050008@tuxonice.net> In-Reply-To: <4C8DB031.6050008@tuxonice.net> 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 On 09/12/2010 10:01 PM, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > probably the same thing I was hitting last week or similar... bisected resulted in crazy numbers(way back in may) long story short git clean -fx resolved the error over here..(so tied up with other things something as simple as that, I forgot) hope this helps.. Justin P. Mattock