> 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 > > ============================================================== > > 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 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
