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thelee
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 Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: make menuconfig gone? |
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So, unless if I completely brainfarted on the command here, after doing a pretty big update on my laptop, I was going to tweak some kernel settings, only to be greated with:
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# make menuconfig
make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop.
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????? I re-emerged about 160 packages during the update, but I don't think any one of them could have broken the handy ncurses configuration menu. How do I get back my configuration menu? |
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phobos13013
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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ok, you are in /usr/src/linux when you issue the command, right...
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thelee
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| yes, absolutely... i don't think I would've brainfarted *that* badly. |
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truc
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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did you do something like this
on one console:
cd /usr/src/linux
and on an other one
rm /usr/src/linux
rm -rf /usr/src/whichever_kernel_the_above_link_was_pointing_ to
ln -s /usr/src/a_new_kernel /usr/src/linux
then back on the first console, issue the make menuconfig command?
This is the kind of scenario that can easily happen.
Try cd /usr/src/linux
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thelee
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well, i did some checking, and apparently one of the packages that got downloaded was the 2.6.23-r3 kernel code. however ,the symlink in my /usr/src/linux is still pointing to 2.6.21-r4, but for some reason it just still doesn't want to do a make menuconfig, though doing a make menuconfig in the 2.6.23-r3 folder does work.
admittedly, i haven't kept too much up to date with what's been going on recently (been busy relocating and getting a new job), but this kind of feels like a "forced" update to 2.6.23 if emerging the new gentoo-sources is what is responsible for disabling the ncurses menu for 2.6.21. oh well, i was going to upgrade anyway... |
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phobos13013
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Figured it was a corrupted kernel symlink. Make sure you update the new symlink so you wont have this problem in the future!
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phobos13013
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thelee,
I know your problem is solved, but so you understand why this happened, i found this explanation for the problem shortly after you fixed it.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-629543.html
Perhaps it can help you in the future; knowledge is power, eh.
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thelee
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| thanks, that helps a bunch. |
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