astrobabe

Hi all,

So I did a kernel rebuild about a month ago because of wireless card issues. Afte much pulling out of my hair I got things at least to the point where I have all the symlinks for my bzImage and initrd and system map and configuration files in /boot set to point to the files for the new kernel.

The problem I've got is that my symlink for kernel.h points to the old kernel. Where do I find the corresponding kernel.h-2.6.3-13mdk file? I've poked all around /usr/src where i recompiled the kernel and don't find anything with a label approximating kernel.h*. Am I just missing something obvious here? My computer barfs up module errors at start up now, presumably because I rebuilt the modules with rebuilding the new kernel but am still stuck using the old kernel because I can't find that file to stick in /boot.

Any help would be much appreciated!

okay one last question:

in /boot I have a bunch of kernel.h-version for the previous kernel versions. Do I need to copy the new one in here? And if where ought I find it (I'm poking around in/usr/src/linux and haven't stumbled across it yet)?

one last quick question-

I know, I'm the spawn of satan, but I'm running grub instead of lilo. And after the previous upgrade the start up menu got a bit crazy. I see files in /boot like vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk that are from Mandrake 9.1. Can I safely delete those older files without much worry?

yeah unfortunately I have the piece of software from hell installed and I'm not sure I can get it installed again if I go for a clean linux install *sigh*

now I know somewhere in menuconfig I need to change the Maximum # of Unix98 PTYs in use- know where that is? I can't find anything like character devices at the moment in menuconfig.

[edit] never mind, found it.

well I had been getting lots of no available ptys errors after I upgraded from9.1 so part of this rebuild of the kernel is to deal with that. . . .

ehh i just installed those and started the rpm -ivh kernel-source again. (though I am annoyed as I've tried multiple times with Mandrake's package tool to get gcc on my computer)

It was preparing just a second ago and now is displaying something about 1-kernel-souce.

ohhh now it's done and has spit me a command line again. . .

there's nada in the linux folder. . . so nuked that. . .here's what I get now. . .

[root@maeve src]# rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
       glibc-devel is needed by kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk
       ncurses-devel is needed by kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk
       gcc is needed by kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk

[root@maeve src]# ls -la
total 37684
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root     4096 Jun  9 17:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root     4096 Jun  7 10:46 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 38526562 Jun  9 17:31 kernel-2.6.3.13mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 Jun  9 18:05 linux/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root     4096 Jun  9 17:31 RPM/
[root@maeve src]#

hmmm okay in /boot I had config-2.4.21-0.13mdk (from 9.1) and config-2.6.3-7mdk (from 10.0). Copied config-2.6.3-7mdk to /usr/src/linux/.config and tried make menu config again and got the same error. . . .

[edit]

Just tried make xconfig and make config and got the same

make: *** No rule to make target `config'.  Stop.

error.

hmmm tried skipping right ahead to make menuconfig and got:

[root@maeve linux]# make menuconfig
make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'.  Stop.

Okay I just finally managed to get the kernel-2.6.3.13mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm file. As per the FAQ, I moved it to /usr/src and tried to rpm -ivh the sucker.

When I tried that I got:

[root@maeve src]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.3.13mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
warning: kernel-2.6.3.13mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 26752624
  1:kernel-2.6.3.13mdk     warning: user qateam does not exist - using root
warning: group qateam does not exist - using root
warning: user qateam does not exist - using root
warning: group qateam does not exist - using root
warning: user qateam does not exist - using root
warning: group qateam does not exist - using root
warning: user qateam does not exist - using root
warning: group qateam does not exist - using root
warning: user qateam does not exist - using root%)
warning: group qateam does not exist - using root
########################################### [100%]
warning: user qateam does not exist - using root
warning: group qateam does not exist - using root
warning: user qateam does not exist - using root
warning: group qateam does not exist - using root

then when I cd to llinux and try a

make mrproper

I get

[root@maeve linux]# make mrproper
make: *** No rule to make target `mrproper'.  Stop.

Am I doing anything wrong? Do I need to give up and throw the laptop into the ocean? Is it normall?

Hi there,

Not a linux newbie, but afraid enough that I'll screw something up.

Originally I had Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop. I finally decided to upgrade to 10.0 official onece I got a wireless card and found out the support was better in 10.0.

Upgraded and everything seemed great. . .until I logged in as a user on my machine. I use xgterms. Haven't heard of them? Well there is a reason- only us astronomers use them. Even worse is that we need xgterms to run our software (IRAF).

When I try to run an xgterm as a user I get the "xgterm: no available ptys" error.

As root I tried

makedev ptys

but that didn't seem to work as I still get the same error.

Now as root logged into the graphical interface (yes yes I know don't do that) I can get an xgterm to run. Any ideas what I can do next? I'm tried finding the kernel out there to do a rebuild and can't find the one with the appropriate mandrake tweaks.

Other question- I use grub. Now when I boot there are like 8 boot options including variants of "old-linus". How the heck do I get rid of some of those options? I know I should keep the regular boot option and failsafe and floppy but there are a few superfluous options there.