Package: kernel-source-2.6.7 Version: 2.6.7-2 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source
Attempting to build a slightly customized 2.6.7 kernel with built in support for IDE, as well as necessary hardware for booting. When doing a 'make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image', the compilation goes fine, but module installation fails. Attached is a snippet from the end of the build process. The first (really long) line is repeated for every module built, and is clearly malformed. *** build_error WARNING: Can't read module /usr/src/linux/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2 .6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.7-20040703a/build/sound/soundcore.ko: Cannot allocate memory FATAL: Memory allocation failure ../depmod.c line 97: malloc(sizeof *new + strlen(name) + 1). make[2]: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.7' make[1]: *** [real_stamp_image] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.7' make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 2 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.6.20040627a Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.7 depends on: ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.0.91-2 The GNU core utilities -- no debconf information

