From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 Description of problem: I installed kernel-source-2.4.9-13 and opened the 'Linux Kernel Configurator' from the KDE (I am using the latest version: 2.2.2) control center (after having made a symbolic link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13 since this is where the kernel configurator looks). Immediately, the kernel configuration tool came up with this message: The kernel configuration could not be read due to the following error /usr/src/linux/drivers/hotplug/Config.in, line 4 mainmenu_option next_commnet # THE WORD next_commnet WAS IN RED ... So I went ahead and replaced that line with 'next_comment' instead of 'next_commnet', and the kernel configurator was happy. Bottomline is: - there is a bug in line 4 of this Config.in that needs to be fixed - KDE kernel configurator is good for you since it ACTUALLY CHECKS the validity of kernel config parameters before you actually compile them (thank you KDE, this thing rocks). I have no idea how it actually checks the parameters in config.in files, and would be interested to find out. - 'make xconfig' does not check this, it would be a good thing that it does. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install kernel-source-2.4.9-13 2.start KDE control center (I am using the 2.2.2, but the default RedHat 7.2 should giv the same behaviour) 3.click on Linux Kernel Configurator (under System) Actual Results: Error message Expected Results: It should work Additional info: