On Friday, 19 September 2025 19:37:10 British Summer Time Javier Martinez wrote: > El 19/9/25 a las 20:34, Dennis Clarke escribió: > > > ... > > > >>>>> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y > >>>>> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y > >>>>> CONFIG_PID_NS=y > >>>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> among others. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Maybe one zgrep CONFIG_NET /proc/config.gz could give as more info. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> With complete honesty I do not know what the next reasonable step is. > >>> I have unplugged the machine because this has taken a week of my time > >>> and the end result is "does not work". So I may look at it again next > >>> week. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> For now I have an ORACLE S7-2 server to begin work on and my plan is to > >>> get Linux running on that. With a great deal of luck the Gentoo > >>> handbook > >>> procedure will "just work" or maybe we land here in two days with the > >>> same problem. Regardless I would rather deal with this using a 4.2GHz > >>> processor than the old old SPARCv9 500MHz unit. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> get into kernel sources dir > > > > > > I don't think that is specific enough. I see a whole whack of stuff : > > > > chroot# cd /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/ > > chroot# ls -la > > total 144 > > drwxr-xr-x 33 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 . > > drwxr-xr-x 181 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:24 .. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 5418 Sep 10 10:11 Manifest.gz > > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 asahi-sources > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 bliss-initramfs > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 cryptodev > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dkms > > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dracut > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dracut-crypt-ssh > > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 genkernel > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-kernel > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-kernel-bin > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-sources > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 git-sources > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 installkernel > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kci-dev > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kergen > > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kpatch > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-docs > > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-firmware > > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-headers > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-next > > -rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 1472 Sep 11 2021 metadata.xml > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 mips-sources > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 modprobed-db > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 pf-sources > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 raspberrypi-image > > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 raspberrypi-sources > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 rt-sources > > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 scx > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 ugrd > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 vanilla-kernel > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 vanilla-sources > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 virtme-ng > > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 zen-sources > > chroot#
This is the wrong directory - only the ebuild files are found in there rather than the kernel tree. The latter failed at the compilation stage because the .config file it used appears to have CONFIG_NET disabled. First you will need to create a .config file for your kernel. ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel/gentoo-kernel- X.x.x.ebuild configure Adjust the above X.x.x version as per the kernel version you want to install. Note which directory the source is unpacked - normally this will be in /var/ tmp/portage/... cd into it and run: make nconfig Or, > >> make menuconfig > > > > > > I don't think that will work unless a pile of ncurses stuff is in place. You should have a fully functioning ncurses within the LiveISO, or whatever OS you chrooted from: ~ $ ls -la /usr/lib64/libncurses.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 13 12:23 /usr/lib64/libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.6 > >> switch on CONFIG_NET > > > > > > If I can ever get to it. I hope the CONFIG_NET will be already enabled, if not then enable it and save the changed .config when you exit. You have to copy the edited .config from the /var/tmp/portage subdirectory it was saved in, to /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel Finally, you must enable USE="savedconfig" for sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, before you re-emerge it. For more details please read this page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Distribution_Kernel > >> make > >> install the kernel > > > > > > If lucky :/ You shouldn't need to run 'make && make modules_install && make install', because emerging a Distribution Kernel should do this automatically for you. HTH.
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