Ok, first - symptoms: on make menuconfig, after parsing is printed, the machine LOCKS UP HARD, the hard disk keeps spinning, nothing at all can be done (well, except reset button), until awk is killed by VM (~20 minutes)... Then the machine unlocks, you've got an error code (don't remember exactly, think 137?) from awk and an unusable menu... Cause - I think a wrong include in one of config.in files caused this - the directory from which I tried to include yet another config.in just didn't exist anymore - I just forgot to remove this include... But sure it shouldn't cause a lock like that... kernel version 2.4.10 locally compiled without any VM-related patches... Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
