Subject: menuconfig crash

To Whom it May Concern:

I experienced a menuconfig crash and I am following the notication
instructions of the error message (pasted below). At the time of the
crash, I was in the sound configuration section and was entering the
ALSA configuration subsection. The kernel I was trying to configure was
a Mandrake 2.4.21 kernel: linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk.

Here is the error message:

-------------BEGINNING OF PASTED MATERIAL------------------------------

Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's
configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error
report:

Q> scripts/Menuconfig: line 832: MCmenu73: command not found

Please report this to the maintainer <[email protected]>. You may also
send a problem report to <[email protected]>.

Please indicate the kernel version you are trying to configure and
which menu you were trying to enter when this error occurred.

make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1

------------END OF PASTED MATERIAL----------------------------------------

The system I was trying to configure this kernel on was an old 200 MHz
Pentium MMX with 64 MB of RAM (so old that it had PCI and USB, but no
AGP; the video card was plugged into a PCI slot).

Regards,

Gus Fantanas


2003-07-20 17:22:20

by Adrian Bunk

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Subject: Re: menuconfig crash

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:28:59AM -0400, Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
> To Whom it May Concern:
>
> I experienced a menuconfig crash and I am following the notication
> instructions of the error message (pasted below). At the time of the
> crash, I was in the sound configuration section and was entering the
> ALSA configuration subsection. The kernel I was trying to configure was
> a Mandrake 2.4.21 kernel: linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk.
>
> Here is the error message:
>
> -------------BEGINNING OF PASTED MATERIAL------------------------------
>
> Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's
> configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error
> report:
>
> Q> scripts/Menuconfig: line 832: MCmenu73: command not found
>
> Please report this to the maintainer <[email protected]>. You may also
> send a problem report to <[email protected]>.
>
> Please indicate the kernel version you are trying to configure and
> which menu you were trying to enter when this error occurred.
>
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
>...

This sounds like a known bug in at least one version of the Mandrake
kernel sources.

It doesn't occur in plain 2.4.21, please ask Mandrake for fixed kernel
sources.

> Regards,
>
> Gus Fantanas

cu
Adrian

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