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Old 07-13-2005, 12:17 PM   #1
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Kernel 2.4.31 make menuconfig error


I'm using Slackware 10.0 on a production server, and I'd like to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.31 from 2.4.26. I can do a make mrproper just fine, however when I attempt to run the command make menuconfig I recieve this error:

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cgoff@www:~/linux-2.4.31$ make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/cgoff/linux-2.4.31/scripts/lxdialog'
gcc: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program cc1)
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.

>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>
>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'

make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cgoff/linux-2.4.31/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
I verified ncurses is installed. I have updated all the files to be current with whatever slapt-get pulls from the 10.0 file mirrors, and chose "all packages" from the installation menu when slackware was installed on this server.

The reason I'm attempting to compile a new kernel is the server recently received another processor, so I'm trying to enable SMP. I tried working with the newest 2.6.x kernel, however I get a segmentation fault everytime I try and run make mrproper on that as well.

I looked up segmentation faults, and it seems as though it might be a hardware memory problem. I ran memtest all weekend on the server (1GB of RAM) and it didn't come up with an error. I have never had problems with GCC until trying to work with a kernel just now.

Any ideas would be appreciated!
 
Old 07-13-2005, 12:51 PM   #2
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I have updated all the files to be current with whatever slapt-get pulls from the 10.0 file mirrors
Do you mean you have upgraded your slackware 10.0 to current ?

Have you upgraded your glibc package at the same time you upgraded
your binutils and gcc packages ?
 
Old 07-13-2005, 01:04 PM   #3
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No current, just whatever updates make it into the regular 10.0 release tree. As far as I'm aware slapt-get didn't touch gcc or glibc, so it should be whatever came with 10.0.
 
Old 07-13-2005, 04:05 PM   #4
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I just swapped out the RAM to double-check the possibility of a hardware memory error. I get the same results no matter what type of stick I have in there.

I did notice my GCC and GLIBC versions are older, I suppose that could be causing the problem.
 
Old 07-21-2005, 11:11 PM   #5
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I've got too

Hai everybody, I've got segmentaton fault when I do make bzImage. I'm using Redhat 8 and aI want to upgrade my
kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.31. When I do make mrproper, make menuconfig, and make depend there is all fine and nothing
wrong or error message. but when I do make bzImage I've got some error message like this :

sysctl.c: In function `sysctl_string':
sysctl.c:1379: internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [sysctl.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/src/linux-2.4.31/kernel'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/src/linux-2.4.31/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2

Is there my physical memory trouble ? or maybe there is something wrong else ?
hello, anybody can help me
Thanx alot
 
  


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