Bug#162132: marked as done (kernel-source-2.4.19: awk segfault on make menuconfig to compile kernel)
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Subject: kernel-source-2.4.19: awk segfault on make menuconfig to compile kernel
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:10:43 -0700
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Package: kernel-source-2.4.19
Version: 2.4.19-1
Severity: grave
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
unknown
Versions of the packages kernel-source-2.4.19 depends on:
ii binutils 2.12.90.0.1-4 The GNU assembler, linker and binary
utiliti
ii bzip2 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
compressor
ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities
Upon executing 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19, the
process dies with the error at the bottom of the following session text:
---------------------------------------------------------
user@host:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19$ make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/scripts/lxdialog'
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o checklist.o checklist.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o menubox.o menubox.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o textbox.o textbox.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o yesno.o yesno.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o inputbox.o inputbox.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o util.o util.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LO
C="<ncurses.h>" -c -o msgbox.o msgbox.c
gcc -o lxdialog checklist.o menubox.o textbox.o yesno.o inputbox.o util.o
lxdialog.o msgbox.o -lncurses
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
Using defaults found in .config
Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 1493
Segmentation fault awk "$1"
Awk died with error code 139. Giving up.
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
user@host:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19$
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I have attempted this step of the kernel compile process at least twenty
times, following advice from the Debian User mail list to:
- Unpack the source tar file as user and not root (and carefully set
permissions on the source directory. I went beyond that to set ownership of
/usr/src to user, and also added user to src group as advised. I also
executed the entire process as root, which should avoid permissions issues.
All but one attempt started with a clean unpack of the kernel source tar
file.
- Use gawk instead of mawk for awk, by installing gawk and changing the
simlink in /etc/alternatives to point to gawk. The same error persists,
whether gawk or mawk is used. This bug is not a duplicate of #81487 because
using gawk instead of mawk does not avoid the error. I even deleted mawk to
ensure that gawk was being used.
Testing also included gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95.4, binutils 2.13.90.0.4-1, and
versions of other dependencies from testing / unstable.
These kernel compile attempts were run several times on a PIII 850 with 1GB
RAM, and several more times on a VMware virtual machine with a completely
clean install of Debian woody (stable) from a minimal CD from LordSutch.com
(with base install from main Debian archive over network). Each time the
make menuconfig dies with the same error.
The last attempt was on a VMware virtual machine on which nothing was
installed except sudo and the packages required for the kernel compilation,
including gcc-2.95.4 and those listed at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html, along with
their dependencies.
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:12:07 +0100
From: maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at>
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Subject: Re: menuconfig: crash due to infinite recursion (gawk)
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bug is fixed in upstream in 2.4 and in debian since 2.4.27-6.
2.6 is not affected.
thanks for your report.
maks
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