Ubuntu Stability

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> 1.) open a terminal and type the lines below each one followed by ENTER
> 2.) sudo su - (followed by your password)
> 3.) apt-get install linux-source-2.6.8.1 build-essential kernel-package
> 4.) cd /usr/src
> 5.) tar xjf linux-source-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2
> 6.) cd linux-source-2.6.8.1
> 7.) cp /boot/config-2.6.8.1* .config
> 8.) make -j bzImage
> 9.) If it's done (you see your prompt again) send us the last 20 or so
>     lines of output.

Okay, here we go. I have spent 2 hours downloading the packages (64Kbps
is really slow...), and it doesn't seem to work. The 'make' aborts after
only a few seconds. Please see below, I copied the entire output. Look
at the bottom, it seems that it aborted because of the
'SMP' (multiprocessing) thing. But I don't know why.... I don't have a
dual-cpu board (I wish I had, though ! ;o).

Any clue ?? :-/

Regards,

Vince

OUTPUT *******************
root at Lotus-Esprit:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.8.1 # make -j bzImage
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-i386
  UPD     include/linux/version.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/split-include
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
  HOSTCC  -fPIC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLLD -shared scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.so
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig
drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig:303:warning: 'select' used by config symbol
'IPW2200' refer to undefined symbol 'IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP'
#
# using defaults found in .config
#
.config:84: trying to assign nonexistent symbol X86_EMU486
*
* Restart config...
*
*
* Processor type and features
*
Subarchitecture Type
> 1. PC-compatible (X86_PC)
  2. AMD Elan (X86_ELAN)
  3. Voyager (NCR) (X86_VOYAGER)
  4. NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) (X86_NUMAQ)
  5. SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) (X86_VISWS)
choice[1-5]: 1
Processor family
> 1. 386 (M386)
  2. 486 (M486)
  3. 586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX (M586)
  4. Pentium-Classic (M586TSC)
  5. Pentium-MMX (M586MMX)
  6. Pentium-Pro (M686)
  7. Pentium-II/Celeron(pre-Coppermine) (MPENTIUMII)
  8. Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine)/Pentium-III Xeon (MPENTIUMIII)
  9. Pentium M (MPENTIUMM)
  10. Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/Xeon (MPENTIUM4)
  11. K6/K6-II/K6-III (MK6)
  12. Athlon/Duron/K7 (MK7)
  13. Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 (MK8)
  14. Crusoe (MCRUSOE)
  15. Winchip-C6 (MWINCHIPC6)
  16. Winchip-2 (MWINCHIP2)
  17. Winchip-2A/Winchip-3 (MWINCHIP3D)
  18. CyrixIII/VIA-C3 (MCYRIXIII)
  19. VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah) (MVIAC3_2)
choice[1-19]: 1
Generic x86 support (X86_GENERIC) [Y/n/?] y
HPET Timer Support (HPET_TIMER) [Y/n/?] y
Symmetric multi-processing support (SMP) [N/y/?] (NEW) aborted!

Console input/output is redirected. Run 'make oldconfig' to update
configuration.

make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Erreur 1
make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Erreur 2
make: *** [include/linux/autoconf.h] Erreur 2
root at Lotus-Esprit:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.8.1 #