Re: make modules_install : unknown symbols

[Fritz Whittington <f.whittington@xxxxxxx>]

On or about 2004-10-15 06:34, ne... whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and 
scribbled:

> On Oct 15, 2004 at 17:56, John Francis Lee in a soothing rage wrote:
>
> [Please do not top post]
>
>  
>
> > On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:21, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Am Fr, den 15.10.2004 schrieb John Francis Lee um 4:54:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > > > cp /boot/.config-2.6.5-1.358 .config
> > > > > > make oldconfig
> > > > > >            
> > > > > You should run "make oldconfig" twice - just to be sure. Under some
> > > > > conditions that is needed.
> > > > >          
> > > > What about the guy in the previous post, Jeff Vian, who tells me this is
> > > > the wrong thing to do to begin with?
> > > >        
> > > He did tell you to better choose the better fitting
> > > /boot/.config-2.6.8-1.521 kernel config file because you did take the
> > > one for the older 2.6.5 kernel.
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > > > make xconfig
> > > > > >            
> > > > > What do you change here? Do you add modules or deactivate some?
> > > > >          
> > > > I removed many modules that I do not need. The default Fedora config
> > > > makes so many modules that the make had previously failed when I ran out
> > > > of room on my root volume.
> > > >        
> > > So, when you start from scratch building your custom kernel, then start
> > > editing and removing modules from bottom of the xconfig window. This
> > > takes better care that you do not remove things on top which are needed
> > > by others below.
> > >      
> > Alexander...
> >
> > I decided to try with the distributed kernel source... and I got the
> > same response. This was with the source and config distributed by redhat
> > and presently running the machine! 
> >
> > So then I decided to delete a lot of modules, which I did bottom up as
> > you suggested. Extremely tedious. I had assumed that unchecking ISDN,
> > for instance, would have kept all the modules below ISDN from being
> > compiled. But I unchecked everything below ISDN by hand as you
> > suggested. And so on.
> >
> > I got the same result again. I have a list of 1193 unique unknown
> > symbols from make modules_install!
> >
> > I don't understand it. And /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358custom/ is three
> > times the size of the original!
> >
> > I'm afraid to shut the machine down... it probably won't come back up!
> >
> > Any insight into what might be wrong here?
> >    
> Your config is messed up. Delete the whole 2.6.8.1 source tree.
> Copy the latest kernel .config from /boot to where you untarred
> a fresh kernel source. Run make oldconfig twice as Mr. Dalloz
> suggested. The use either 'make config' or 'make menuconfig' to
> configure your kernel. Do not use xconfig or gconfig. Then
> 'make all' before 'make modules_install'.
>
> N.Emile...
>  
Just curious... is there something wrong with using xconfig or gconfig?  
Do they have bugs or something?

--
Fritz Whittington
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes ...
That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!

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