error in oldconfig

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 27 May 2014 03:08:53 +0300, Nada Saif said:

> Why this appear to me when I use make oldconfig :
>
> *** Error during writing of the configuration.
>
> make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2
> mkdir: cannot create directory `arch/x86/syscalls/../include/generated':
> Permission denied

Most likely, the last time you did a kernel build you were root at the time,
and this time you weren't....
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