genkernel won't build initrd

[Rion]

i tried various versions of kernel but with genkernel i constantly get next error

* busybox: >> Configuring...
* busybox: >> Compiling...
* ERROR: Failed to compile the "all" target...

* -- Grepping log... --

CC coreutils/head.o
CC coreutils/id.o
CC coreutils/ln.o
CC coreutils/ls.o
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/coreutils/ls.c: In function 'ls_main':
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/coreutils/ls.c warning: implicit declaration of function 'dfree'
--
CC util-linux/dmesg.o
CC util-linux/freeramdisk.o
CC util-linux/losetup.o
CC util-linux/mdStart.o
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/mdStart.c: In function 'mdstart_main':
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/mdStart.c:36: warning: implicit declaration of function 'bb_show_usage'
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/mdStart.c:41: warning: implicit declaration of function 'sscanf'
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/mdStart.c:41: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'ssc
anf'
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/mdStart.c:48: warning: implicit declaration of function 'close'
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/mdStart.c:51: warning: implicit declaration of function 'printf'
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/mdStart.c:51: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'pri
ntf'
CC util-linux/mdev.o
CC util-linux/more.o
CC util-linux/mount.o
CC util-linux/nfsmount.o
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/nfsmount.c: In function 'xdr_mountres3_ok':
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/util-linux/nfsmount.c warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-alia
sing rules
--
CC libbb/perror_nomsg_and_die.o
CC libbb/print_file.o
CC libbb/printf.o
CC libbb/process_escape_sequence.o
CC libbb/procps.o
/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/libbb/procps.c:15:22: error: asm/page.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/libbb/procps.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [all] ïÛÉÂËÁ 2
* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.4.7_pre3
* Running with options: --gensplash=livecd-2006.1 initrd

* ERROR: Failed to compile the "all" target...

* -- End log... --

genkernel-3.4.7_pre3
emerge --info

Portage 2.1.2-r12 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5.90.20070214-r0, 2.6.20-viper3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-viper3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:47:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.12
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.20-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch prelink sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ons/gentoo"
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=both -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en ru"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=120"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-* --prune-empty-dirs"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/php-testing /usr/local/portage/layman/java-migration-packages /usr/local/portage/layman/gnome-experimental /usr/local/portage/layman/custom-kernels /usr/local/portage/layman/xeffects /usr/local/portage/layman/xeffects-experimental /usr/local/portage/layman/toolchain-new /usr/local/portage/layman/toolchain /usr/local/portage/layman/berkano /usr/local/portage/generic"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnowex a52 aac acpi aiglx aim alsa amd64 amr apache2 ares ati audacious audiofile automount bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dba dbus device-mapper dga dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg firefox flac flash fortran ftp fuse galago gcc gd gdbm gif gimp glitz gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hashstyle howl iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k lcms libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mailwrapper midi mime ming mmx2 mng mono mozdevelop mozilla mpeg msn mysql mysqli ncurses newspr nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar pam pcre pdf perl php png posix pppd python qt qt3 quicktime rcc readline reflection samba session snmp spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse3 ssl svg symlink tcltk tcp tcpd theora threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vhosts vorbis wmf xcb xine xinerama xml xmlrpc xorg xprint xsl xvid yahoo zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INITNG_PLUGINS="also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical ctrlaltdel daemon_clean debug_commands envparser find fmon fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit lockfile logfile netdev netprobe ngc4 ngcs nge pause provide reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog sysreq unneeded usplash" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa radeon"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK

week or more ago everything was fine. i've updated gcc and maybe something else

[lmmsci]

I had the same problem.
Check which version of linux-headers you have. I suppose that it is version 2.6.20-r1. If try to look for /usr/include/asm/page.h file you'll find nothing and this file is necessary for kernel compilation as you can see in your logs:

/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/libbb/procps.c:15:22: error: asm/page.h: No such file or directory

Just downgrade linux-headers to version 2.6.20:

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emerge -va =sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.20

or more drastically (e.g.):

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emerge -va /usr/portage/sys-kernel/linux-headers/linux-headers-2.6.20.ebuild

- if path to your portage tree is /usr/portage of course.
I think that after that procedure, removing of kernel sources (e.g. gentoo-sources) and installing them again is good idea (and surely save for your purpose).
It should work.
Best regards.

[--raptor--]

try

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ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm/page.h /usr/include/asm/

[kernelOfTruth]

I had the same problem.
Check which version of linux-headers you have. I suppose that it is version 2.6.20-r1. If try to look for /usr/include/asm/page.h file you'll find nothing and this file is necessary for kernel compilation as you can see in your logs:

/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/libbb/procps.c:15:22: error: asm/page.h: No such file or directory

Just downgrade linux-headers to version 2.6.20:

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emerge -va =sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.20

or more drastically (e.g.):

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emerge -va /usr/portage/sys-kernel/linux-headers/linux-headers-2.6.20.ebuild

- if path to your portage tree is /usr/portage of course.
I think that after that procedure, removing of kernel sources (e.g. gentoo-sources) and installing them again is good idea (and surely save for your purpose).
It should work.
Best regards.

thanks, that worked for me, too

[Rion]

thanks, works for me too

[lmmsci]

So, if it works, I think adding [SOLVED] to subject of this thread is very good idea.

[mightymephisto]

I actually found that by using a more recent version of busybox solved my problem.

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FEATURES="keepwork" emerge busybox

which kept the source code in /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/busybox-1.4.1-r2/work/busybox-1.4.1. I used that to create the .tar.bz2 file package which genkernel uses.

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cd /tmp
cp -R /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/busybox-1.4.1-r2/work/busybox-1.4.1 busybox-1.4.1-r2
tar -jcf busybox-1.4.1-r2.tar.bz2 busybox-1.4.1-r2
mv busybox-1.4.1-r2.tar.bz2 /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/

Then I edited /etc/genkernel.conf to use the newer version of busybox, by changing BUSYBOX_VER to 1.4.1-r2

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BUSYBOX_VER="1.4.1-r2"

Then genkernel worked as normal

[System_Failure]

I actually found that by using a more recent version of busybox solved my problem.

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FEATURES="keepwork" emerge busybox

which kept the source code in /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/busybox-1.4.1-r2/work/busybox-1.4.1. I used that to create the .tar.bz2 file package which genkernel uses.

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cd /tmp
cp -R /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/busybox-1.4.1-r2/work/busybox-1.4.1 busybox-1.4.1-r2
tar -jcf busybox-1.4.1-r2.tar.bz2 busybox-1.4.1-r2
mv busybox-1.4.1-r2.tar.bz2 /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/

Then I edited /etc/genkernel.conf to use the newer version of busybox, by changing BUSYBOX_VER to 1.4.1-r2

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BUSYBOX_VER="1.4.1-r2"

Then genkernel worked as normal

while a little bit longer of a solution, I like it better because it keeps things up-to-date. Seems to have solved the problem prefectly^^ thank you

[ToeiRei]

Great thing. You should file a bug that the package for genkernel gets updated...
Nevertheless it is strange that genkernel needs its own packages - why can't it just build busybox?

Rei

[richard77]

lmmsci suggestion worked also for me.

Should this be reported as a genkernel bug?

[Soultaker]

I encountered the same problem, and fixed it by unmasking the latest version of genkernel, 3.4.8, by adding "genkernel ~x86" to /etc/portage/package.use.

So if it was a bug in genkernel, it has been fixed by now, and it's just annoying that the latest stable version of kernel-headers does not work with the latest stable version of genkernel.

[SkyLine]

I had the same problem.
Check which version of linux-headers you have. I suppose that it is version 2.6.20-r1. If try to look for /usr/include/asm/page.h file you'll find nothing and this file is necessary for kernel compilation as you can see in your logs:

/var/tmp/genkernel/6528.19024.3323.4812/busybox-1.1.3+gentoo/libbb/procps.c:15:22: error: asm/page.h: No such file or directory

Just downgrade linux-headers to version 2.6.20:

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emerge -va =sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.20

or more drastically (e.g.):

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emerge -va /usr/portage/sys-kernel/linux-headers/linux-headers-2.6.20.ebuild

- if path to your portage tree is /usr/portage of course.
I think that after that procedure, removing of kernel sources (e.g. gentoo-sources) and installing them again is good idea (and surely save for your purpose).
It should work.
Best regards.

Same Problem.

Is have been solved by genkernel-3.4.8.

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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -v genkernel

Thanks another information.