make menuconfig loops ??

make menuconfig loops ??

[Per Jessen]

Hi,
  
I have a problem when trying to build a kernel. It appears that make menuconfig
starts to loop - 
after writing "Preparing scripts: functions, parsing ...done."
This is 2.4.23, jfs114, gcc3.3.2.
  
What stuns me is - on this system I have *already* successfully built
2.4.23, and it is running just fine. This second build is for a different
target system, and the sourcetree is (obviously) in a different directory. 
  
1. /usr/src/linux  -> /usr/src/linux-2.4.23  - no problems.    /dev/hda1
2. /data1/linux  ->   /data1/linux-2.4.23 - loops.             /dev/hda4
  
Filesystem in both cases is JFS. 
  
Unpack a vanilla kernel into eg. /data1/kk23/linux-2.4.23 and trying it
there - same result. 
  
I haven't touched or replaced or done anything to ncurses, and lxdialog is
new/rebuilt.
I've straced the 'make menuconfig' and it is quite clearly looping. Can
anyone point me in the right direction and help me try to solve this??  
  
  
thanks,
Per Jessen, Zurich
http://www.dansklisten.org

Re: make menuconfig loops ??

[Nikita Danilov]

Per Jessen writes:
 > Hi,
 >   
 > I have a problem when trying to build a kernel. It appears that make menuconfig
 > starts to loop - 
 > after writing "Preparing scripts: functions, parsing ...done."
 > This is 2.4.23, jfs114, gcc3.3.2.

I have seen this when file system with kernel sources was mounted
noexec. What is in /proc/mounts?

Nikita.

 >   

Re: make menuconfig loops ??

[Per Jessen]

Nikita Danilov wrote:

> Per Jessen writes:
>  > Hi,
>  >   
>  > I have a problem when trying to build a kernel. It appears that make
>  > menuconfig starts to loop -
>  > after writing "Preparing scripts: functions, parsing ...done."
>  > This is 2.4.23, jfs114, gcc3.3.2.
> 
> I have seen this when file system with kernel sources was mounted
> noexec. What is in /proc/mounts?
> 

Nikita, 

/proc/mounts:

earth:/etc # cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / jfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot jfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda4 /data1 jfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0


/Per

Re: make menuconfig loops ??

[Per Jessen]

Per Jessen wrote:

> I have a problem when trying to build a kernel. It appears that make
> menuconfig starts to loop -
> after writing "Preparing scripts: functions, parsing ...done."
> This is 2.4.23, jfs114, gcc3.3.2.

All, this problem has now miraculously disappeared!  Obviously I must've
changed something, I just can't think of what it might have been.  


/Per


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