computer hangs when unpacking kernel source

hubabuba · 10-04-2007, 12:26 PM

Hi,

I'm tryind to extract kernel-2.6.22.9.tar.bz2 with the following commmand:

tar xfvj kernel-2.6.22.9.tar.bz2

but at some point during decompression it just stops and does nothing.

Does anyone know what may be causing it?
Is this something to do with APIC?

Thanks

ghostdancer · 10-04-2007, 01:00 PM

You mean the whole system hang while uncompressing the source file? My gut feeling tells me is something related with the disk (most likely it write to a disk area where it encountered a bad sector).

jailbait · 10-04-2007, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hubabuba

Hi,

I'm tryind to extract kernel-2.6.22.9.tar.bz2 with the following commmand:

tar xfvj kernel-2.6.22.9.tar.bz2

but at some point during decompression it just stops and does nothing.

Does anyone know what may be causing it?
Is this something to do with APIC?

Thanks

I think that the f parameter has to be at the end of the parameter list:

tar -xvjf kernel-2.6.22.9.tar.bz2

Another possible problem is where you are unpacking the tarball. What directory are you in when you issue the command?

You use the v parameter so surely you are getting some messages from tar before it quits. What does it say?

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hubabuba · 10-04-2007, 01:34 PM

Yes, the whole system hangs. I can't do anything other than turn off and on again.

I'm unpacking the tarball in /usr/src/.

tar does not quit, it just freezes in the middle of unpacking the tarball.

The are no messages other than usuall output during the extraction - what files are being unpacked, into what directories.

ghostdancer · 10-04-2007, 01:38 PM

Have you check the log files in /var/log: messages, syslog, debug ...

gnashley · 10-05-2007, 01:26 AM

It could be that you are running out of disk space.
If not, have you tried using 'tar xvf kernel-2.6.22.9.tar.bz2'?

hubabuba · 10-06-2007, 06:58 AM

I have tried using 'tar xvf kernel-2.6.22.9.tar.bz2', but computer still hangs and I used options 'xfvj' before on other computers. It worked fine.
I'm definitely not running out of space.

hubabuba · 10-06-2007, 07:20 AM

I downloaded kernel source as 'gz' instead of 'bz2', used 'tar xzvf linux-2.6.22.9.tar.gz', but computer still hangs.

duryodhan · 10-06-2007, 09:07 AM

could you try redirecting the output to a file, so that maybe we could see where exactly it hangs?
Also, what is the filesystem you are using?

And how much free space do you have ?

Try downloading an older tar.bz2 , unpacking that maybe? If that works you could patch up to the latest version.

hubabuba · 10-08-2007, 02:29 PM

I have downloaded the file from www.eu.kernel.org instead of www.kernel.org and it unpacked fine. Strange.

manwichmakesameal · 10-09-2007, 07:42 AM

Just out of curiosity, why are you unpacking in /usr/src? AFAIK, the only one that should be in there is the one that glibc was built against. Do you have your / on a seperate partition? If so, how big is it?

gnashley · 10-09-2007, 01:52 PM

The sources which glibc was compiled against should be in /usr/src/linux. Usually, this is a symbolic link to the actual sources -like linux-2.4.33. This insures that the proper headers are found when compiling additional software for your system. It's perfectly alright to unpack other versions of the kernel under /usr/src, as long as you don't create the symbolic link /usr/src/linux to the 'other' version.

duryodhan · 10-09-2007, 11:24 PM

Yeah, but if you unpack in /usr/src , you usually have to be root to compile etc. which is generally not needed at all. I feel you are better off unpacking in ~