[kbuild-devel] 'make gconfig' segfault

[Lindsay Haisley]

There's a bug reported on the Gentoo kernel, which I also experienced,
which causes 'make gconfig' to segfault in recent kernels (e.g. 2.6.11).
See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98410

It appears, from the discussion, that the problem affects the kernel
sources in other distributions, apparently including stock kernels from
kernel.org.  A patch for the problem by Joachim Nilsson has appeared on
the debian kernel list which addresses the problem.  See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/01/msg00171.html

This fixes the problem for me, perhaps not ideally (I'm not a kernel or
gtk programmer), but I recommend that the issue, and the patch, be moved
upstream for consideration of a possible fix in future versions of the
Linux kernel.

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Re: [kbuild-devel] 'make gconfig' segfault

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:12:45PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> There's a bug reported on the Gentoo kernel, which I also experienced,
> which causes 'make gconfig' to segfault in recent kernels (e.g. 2.6.11).
> See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98410
> 
> It appears, from the discussion, that the problem affects the kernel
> sources in other distributions, apparently including stock kernels from
> kernel.org.  A patch for the problem by Joachim Nilsson has appeared on
> the debian kernel list which addresses the problem.  See
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/01/msg00171.html
> 
> This fixes the problem for me, perhaps not ideally (I'm not a kernel or
> gtk programmer), but I recommend that the issue, and the patch, be moved
> upstream for consideration of a possible fix in future versions of the
> Linux kernel.


I see same problem here (on Gentoo).
Can you (or Joachim) please forward the patch then I will give it a
try.

Sam


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