menuconfig crash

menuconfig crash

[Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas]

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 <mec@shout.net>.  You may also
 send a problem report to <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>.

 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

Re: menuconfig crash

[Adrian Bunk]

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 <mec@shout.net>.  You may also
> send a problem report to <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>.
> 
> 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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