On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:29 PM Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen <t@laumann.xyz> wrote:
Yes, I was getting that error when running "sudo make install". I have manually removed all instances of VirtualBox and any guest additions and that warning went away.
Interesting...
Interesting ? Don't forget I compiled and installed via make install, so I had to manually remove the following entries: /boot/vmlinuz*KERNEL-VERSION* /boot/initrd*KERNEL-VERSION* /boot/System-map*KERNEL-VERSION* /boot/config-*KERNEL-VERSION* /lib/modules/*KERNEL-VERSION*/ /var/lib/initramfs/*KERNEL-VERSION*/ Then update the grub configuration: sudo update-grub2 Then look for any loose ends using 'locate': locate -b -e *dkms 3.18.2-* You get the idea. Was definitely not fun :-)
When I select the new kernel it goes through all the usual steps of booting then hangs at the graphical login screen where I no longer have a mouse and Ctrl+Alt+F1 does not work either .
Is there a way you could increase the kernel log level to debug, and capture the logs during boot? That might be informative.
Hmm... should be possible. Never needed to do this before so another learning experience for me here. I will get back to you on this.
I have given below the output of: sudo time make install 2>&1 | tee make_install.txt
============================================================== sh ./arch/x86/boot/install.sh 3.18.2-testing arch/x86/boot/bzImage \ System.map "/boot" run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.18.2-testing /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.2-testing run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.18.2-testing /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.2-testing update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.18.2-testing W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw for module r8169 run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 3.18.2-testing /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.2-testing Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.2-testing Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.18.2-testing Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.2-testing.old Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.18.2-testing Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found memtest86+ multiboot image: /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1 Found Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (12.04) on /dev/sdb1 Found Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.5) on /dev/sdb3 Found Debian GNU/Linux (8.0) on /dev/sdb5 Found Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (14.04) on /dev/sdb6 done 1.33user 0.71system 0:29.75elapsed 6%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 16520maxresident)k 251456inputs+74824outputs (52major+1632571minor)pagefaults 0swaps
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Like I said I have a lot of old kernels lying around this box :-)
And Windowses :-) But nothing looks particularly erroneous about the output.
I used to work from home as a remote agent for a call center and they had a policy we had to use Windows no exceptions. I tried to convert them to Linux and you all know how that went :-)
The contents of the Makefile in ./arch/x86/include at line 167:
166 - # prevent gcc from generating any FP code by mistake 167 - KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow 168 - KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mno-avx,)
Interesting, I see no mention of "Makefile.normal" here. But maybe that's because you removed whatever required it?
Could well be ... but 'locate' shows me this: aruna@debian:~$ locate Makefile.normal /usr/src/open-vm-tools-9.4.6/vmci/Makefile.normal /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/9.4.6/build/vmci/Makefile.normal Does that help or make any sense ?
You have pointed me in the right direction so thank you. Ten plus years I have been dabbling with Linux and I just learnt something new. I had no idea about this:
aruna@debian:/media/aruna/kernel-stuff/linux-3.18.2$ ls -alh /etc/kernel/postinst.d total 20K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 23 06:18 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Mar 31 00:45 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.8K Apr 13 2015 apt-auto-removal -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 858 Mar 1 2015 initramfs-tools -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 641 Dec 14 2015 zz-update-grub
Thank you Thomas I will keep trying to fix the no mouse issue now.
No problem, I wasn't sure if I was helping :-)
Yes sir you most certainly did help.
-- Thomas