menuconfig crash

To Whom it May Concern:

I experienced a menuconfig crash and I am following the notication instructions of the error message (pasted below). At the time of the crash, I was in the sound configuration section and was entering the ALSA configuration subsection. The kernel I was trying to configure was a Mandrake 2.4.21 kernel: linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk.

Here is the error message:

-------------BEGINNING OF PASTED MATERIAL------------------------------

Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error report:

Q> scripts/Menuconfig: line 832: MCmenu73: command not found

Please report this to the maintainer <[email protected]>. You may also send a problem report to <[email protected]>.

Please indicate the kernel version you are trying to configure and which menu you were trying to enter when this error occurred.

make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1

------------END OF PASTED MATERIAL----------------------------------------

The system I was trying to configure this kernel on was an old 200 MHz Pentium MMX with 64 MB of RAM (so old that it had PCI and USB, but no AGP; the video card was plugged into a PCI slot).

Regards,

Gus Fantanas

This sounds like a known bug in at least one version of the Mandrake kernel sources.

It doesn't occur in plain 2.4.21, please ask Mandrake for fixed kernel sources.

cu
Adrian

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