We are working on our own embedded Yocto build and would like to use menuconfig from the Linux kernel to configure some device drivers. We would like to add PPP support to our image.
From the build directory we try
bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
That tries to launch menuconfig but results in the following error:
Failed to execute child process "oe-gnome-terminal-phonehome" (No such file or directory)
We are fairly new to working on a linux kernal. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
I just realized that according to the error message posted, starting your additional graphical terminal failed. This is according to [1] a known problem in your Python version [2]. And occurs according to [3] only on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS since the oe-gnome-terminal-phonehome stuff was added [4].
Therefore you may try to participate in finding an upstream accepted solution on this issue.
[1] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/129527/
[2] https://bugs.python.org/issue8557
[3] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10312
[4] https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=c706bfbabbf9f7caf2cf509eb91381fb49aa44cb
I'm using menuconfig in a devshell. This works (at least for jethro) perfectly well.
Therefore, in your bitbake build directory execute:
bitbake virtual/kernel -c devshell
Then a new terminal window should pop up standing somewhere inside TEMPDIR of your build directory. In this shell you should now be able to execute:
make menuconfig