rawhide report: 20060629 changes(kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6doesn't boot)

[Tom London]

On 6/29/06, Jim Bevier <jim at jbsys.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom London" <selinux at gmail.com>
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
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> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:09 PM
> Subject: Re: rawhide report: 20060629
> changes(kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6doesn't boot)
>
>
> > On 6/29/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Thursday 29 June 2006 15:50, Jim Bevier wrote:
> >> > Well switching over to the "new spec file" causes all the 3rd party
> >> > module
> >> > build scripts to fail. The say "kernel configuration not valid - run
> >> > 'make
> >> > prepare' in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-x86_64 to update it."
> >> > Are
> >> > you going back to the old way or are going to have to fix all the
> >> > builds?
> >> > I vote for the old way! Using "_FC6" is fine with me. There errors so
> >> > far are for mvidia, vmware, ntfs, and spca5xx modules.
> >>
> >> What are they checking to figure this out?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jesse Keating
> >> Release Engineer: Fedora
> >>
> > Could this be coming from source/Makefile:
> > # If .config is newer than include/config/auto.conf, someone tinkered
> > # with it and forgot to run make oldconfig.
> > # if auto.conf.cmd is missing then we are probably in a cleaned tree so
> > # we execute the config step to be sure to catch updated Kconfig files
> > include/config/auto.conf: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) include/config/auto.conf.cmd
> > ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
> >        $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile silentoldconfig
> > else
> >        $(error kernel configuration not valid - run 'make prepare' in
> > $(srctree) to update it)
> > endif
> >
> > tom
> > --
> > Tom London
> >
>
> It looks like this is where the message is coming from.  For example,
> spca5xx executes "make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> SUBDIRS=/root/spca5xx-20060501 CC=cc modules" to build the module.  The
> error is coming from the /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-x86_64/Makefile.
> Where do I go from here to fix this?  I am not a Makefile wizard :-(.
>
> Jim
>
I 'fixed' this by doing the following:
     cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-i686
     make prepare

Worked for me after that (i.e., I could build the vmware modules).

tom
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Tom London