[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make[1]: *** [kernel/Makefile:134: kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 127

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 10:28:46PM -0500, John Covici wrote
>
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:22:47 -0500,
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> >   I'm doing a fresh install on another Lenovo Thinkpad.  First attempt
> > at a kernel build ends with...
> >
> >
> >   CC      kernel/kallsyms.o
> >   CC      kernel/acct.o
> >   CC      kernel/crash_core.o
> >   CC      kernel/utsname.o
> >   CC      kernel/pid_namespace.o
> >   GZIP    kernel/config_data.gz
> >   CC      kernel/configs.o
> >   CHK     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
> >   GEN     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
> > make[1]: *** [kernel/Makefile:134: kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 127
> > make: *** [Makefile:1726: kernel] Error 2
> >
> >
> >   I ran the build from within "time".  I know that this problem occured
> > 3 minutes 41 seconds into the build.  I'm not a kernel hacker.  Any
> > ideas?
>
> I wonder if you ran out of space or memory.  What .config did you use?

  6 (six) gigs of ram and 220 gigs of disk, separate from the swap
partition.

  I just found https://bugs.gentoo.org/701678 and did the
exact opposite of what I think it means, and the build succeeded.
Something to do with "IKHEADERS".

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications