Re: [Gumstix-users] menuconfig not working

[Chuck R. <shi...@ro...>]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Eli Morris wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to recompile the kernel following these directions:
>
> 	bitbake gumstix-kernel -c menuconfig
> 	bitbake gumstix-kernel -f -c compile
>    	bitbake gumstix-kernel
>    	bitbake -c rebuild task-base-gumstix
>    	bitbake -c rebuild gumstix-directfb-image
>
> and when I give the command 'bitbake gumstix-kernel -c menuconfig', a
> terminal window pops up for about a tenth of a second. I assume this
> is the menuconfig part of the process and that the window is supposed
> to stick around until I'm done doing the configuration. Anybody have
> an idea as to why the terminal disappears so fast? There are no error
> messages that I can see. I tried doing the configuration by just
> editing the default kernel parameter file, but the option I put in was
> overwritten by a new default file.

Eli,

I've seen that happen when sh is linked to dash, not bash. menuconfig  
gets run in a new terminal window, so it sounds like it's not sticking  
around long enough to run it.

Chuck