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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#35582: Crashes when I try to load a config file
From:       Malte Starostik <malte () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-30 20:53:24
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Am Friday 30 November 2001 08:01 schrieben Sie:
> Package: kcmlinuz
> Version: 2.2.2
>
> If this problem is general, severity should be higher.
>
> I click on the KDE control center icon and select System | Linux
> Kernel Configurator.
> Then I click "Load From" and navigate to a copy of the configuration
> file save under /boot by kernel-package (? not sure that's the exact
> name--the debian way of building kernels).  I select the file, hit OK,
> and it crashes.
>
> I thought it might be a permission issue, so I copied config-2.4.12 to
> my home directory and changed ownership.  Still crashes repeatably.
>
> I thought it might be that the default path to the source is not
> present on my system, but setting it first and then loading the config
> file still crashes.
>
> After I set the path I get the following error displayed in the main
> panel of the KDE Control Center:
>         The kernel configuration could not be read due to the following
> error:
>
>         cannot open /usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.4.14//arch//config.in
> for readingEither your kernel sources contain invalid configuration rules
> or you just found a bug in the KDE Kernel Configurator.
//arch//config.in
should be //arch/i386/config.in or whatever platform you're building for. Is 
that source tree readable for the user you're running kcontrol as?
Either way, none of these situations should crash the app, I'll look into it.

[snip]

Thanks for the report,
- -- 
Malte Starostik
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