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Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 12/18/17 18:46, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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>> I just thought I'd send this out in case others aren't aware... |
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>> I've updated some seven machines now to the new profile and gcc6. Out |
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>> of the seven, four of them had problems rebuilding the kernel which |
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>> led to an outright hang during booting (black screen, no kernel |
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>> panic, just hang.) |
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>> I found out `make clean` is not enough, I had to backup my .config, |
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>> use `make mrproper`, restore the .config and run `make |
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>> silentoldconfig` before compiling the kernel and modules. |
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>> I am thinking `make clean` didn't remove everything made during the |
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>> compile process and caused some strange race condition somewhere |
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>> while booting (completely guessing here.) |
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>> I went back to the three that seemed to be working fine and did the |
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>> mrproper process on them, because if something happens down the line |
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>> I probably won't remember what caused the boot issue. |
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>> Dan |
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> Sigh... from the kernel Makefile: |
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> # clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules |
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> The computers in question that were hanging were using external |
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> modules such as nvidia, open-vm-tools modules, vmware modules, etc... |
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> *smacks head against wall* |
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> I guess I answered my own question now, and I'll bet that everyone |
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> here knew this already! |
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> Dan |
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I never can remember which is which so I run them both. If that ever |
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starts to fail, I may see how me using that rm command does with |
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cleaning out stuff. ROFL |
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Thanks for the heads up tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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