[CentOS] Kernel build warning

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 20:27:25 UTC 2007


On 7/5/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 20:04 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > When you got this warning:
> >
> > > WARNING: "autofs_kill_sb" [fs/autofs/autofs.ko] undefined!
> >
> > did you copy the config file from the SOURCES directory?  And did you
> > run "make oldconfig" after copying but before "make menuconfig"?  If
> > this was not the case, try the make oldconfig step.  This should give
> > you the correct AUTOFS options.
> >
>
> Originally, no, I had run make oldconfig.  I did a rebuild with that and
> got no errors.  Here is what my config files now contain:
>
> $ grep -i autofs *86_64*.config
> kernel-2.6.18-x86_64.config:# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
> kernel-2.6.18-x86_64.config:CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=m
> kernel-2.6.18-x86_64-kdump.config:CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
> kernel-2.6.18-x86_64-kdump.config:CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=m
> kernel-2.6.18-x86_64-xen.config:CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
> kernel-2.6.18-x86_64-xen.config:CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=m
>
> $ ll *86_64*.config
> 63438 Jul  5 12:05 kernel-2.6.18-x86_64.config
> 64767 Jul  2 18:28 kernel-2.6.18-x86_64-kdump.config
> 65935 Jul  2 18:27 kernel-2.6.18-x86_64-xen.config
>
> (Note that I only built the stock kernel, not the xen or dump kernels.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> mhr

Right.  Running make oldconfig was the key.  Congrats on your
successful rebuild.

Akemi



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