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...
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.
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.
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 += $(call cc-option,-mno-avx,)
Interesting, I see no mention of "Makefile.normal" here. But maybe that's because you removed whatever required it?
You have pointed me in the right direction so thank you. Ten plus years I have been dabbling with Linux and I just learnt something new. I had no idea about this:
aruna@debian:/media/aruna/kernel-stuff/linux-3.18.2$ 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 :-) -- Thomas