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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:32, -={|TooManyMirrors|}=- wrote:
> Yes, but if i select the same kernel that is already installed it
> doesn't go to menuconfig, I'm pretty sure it used to though. I guess I
> could dive into the linux spell but i hear there is much magic there.
> thought it might be an easy fix or recent change.
>
> toomanymirrors

here on my system saying yes to configure the kernel ends up with make 
menuconfig running.
What you are reporting might be  due to the spell now trying to bring up the 
GUI interface if DISPLAY is found set. It does this regardless of whether 
root has access to DISPLAY and if it fails I think it might go straight onto 
the make portion.
try either running 
xhost +
or cast linux from a vt while X isn't running or at least a vt that doesn't 
have DISPLAY set.
Anyone using an  NVIDIA card and their drivers (that wouldn't install if X 
was 
running ) would likely have not found this problem either as they would have 
been compiling kernels outside of X for six months or more. 
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