Highmem kernel build failed [SOLVED]

[Joey Baltrusch]

 The solution was simple in hindsight, but very odd.   I had several
problems, including very poor mouse behaviour as I was working in Gnome. 
This morning, I decided to look over the KDE desktop configuration and
see what it offered.  I immediately noticed that my mouse worked.  And
then I checked, and my USB Cruzer mini-drive worked!!   So, I tried the
kernel compile again, and that worked too!!! That says something about
the Fedora 8 respin, that several components seem to work better after
KDE comes up the first time.  My mouse and other components now work
under Gnome as well. Of course, it could have been something else that I
changed while working through all the other issues, but too many things
changed.  I'll never know for sure.  Now, off to get VNC and Blender
running.....

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Joey Baltrusch"
  To: fedora-list at redhat.com
  Subject: Highmem kernel build failed
  Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:16:15 +0800

  I am a noob to Linux, but I've been able to follow the FC8 script at
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel?highlight=%28kernel%29
  For the kernel config, I used the kernel-2.6.23.9-i686.config After
  modifying the highmem switch successfully using the script (it looks
  good in .config), I followed the script down to the rpmbuild
  command.  I used the "Build all flavors" format, and got this
  response at the end.  I assume I'm missing something from my Dev
  environment, it's the default from the FC8 i386 DVD. RPM Build Errorsbad
  exit status from /var/tmp/rmp-tmp.19630 I'm building linux on a asus
  P5K SE with 8Gig ram, and I'm going to use Blender, so I want to
  maximize my memory usage. Any suggestions are much appreciated!
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