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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:34:11AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> Dave Bresson wrote: |
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> > So i decided to switch to the new 2.4.0.11-rc3 kernel, not only because of |
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> > the few improvements, but also i just prefer to make my own, slimmed down, |
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> > more optimized kernel for my machine. Anyway, i merged the linux source |
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> > of the kernel in question from portage, and all was fine. I then did a |
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> > 'make menuconfig', then a 'make bzImage', 'make modules', and 'make |
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> > modules_install'. Now i know i didn't include or exclude anything i |
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> > shouldn't have (i've rolled my own kernel plenty of times), however when |
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> > booting with my new kernel i get "Error configuring module dependencies." |
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> > As such, the modules don't work (most importantly my ethernet driver). I |
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> > know the drivers compiled and installed in the right spot, since i can |
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> > manually do an 'insmod' for my net driver, and then restart the inet |
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> > script. So there must be some sort of configuration issue going on i |
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> > don't know about. Here a sample of some of the boot errors from |
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> > /var/log/boot: |
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> > Calculating kernel module dependencies... |
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> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in |
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> > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/char/pc |
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> > mcia/serial_cb.o |
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> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in |
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> > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/char/pc |
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> > mcia/serial_cs.o |
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> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in |
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> > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/isdn/av |
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> > mb1/avm_cs.o |
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> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in |
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> > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/md/line |
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> > ar.o |
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> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in |
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> > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/md/raid |
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> > 0.o |
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> > |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > Auto-generating 2.4.0-ac11 modules.conf... |
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> > modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.0-ac11/modules.dep |
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> > (No such file or directory) |
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> > And that about ends the errors. Well, right after that it tries to insert |
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> > the net driver, but fails. You get the drift. Anyway, it looks like from |
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> > the errors that it's still trying to load the modules my old kernel used, |
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> > but from my new kernel's mod directory (where they don't exist, since i |
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> > didn't need them for my new kernel). However, i still have the same net |
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> > module for both kernels, and even that didn't work. Something is |
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> > definitely wrong. Somewhere along the line i must've forgotten something |
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> > neccessary to configure the correct module dependencies and such. Could |
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> > this have anything to do with the discussed 'depmod -a' call from one of |
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> > the other threads on the list? Since Pete just put that in, i doubt the |
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> > ebuild script i used did this (the one i had was from this morning). |
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> > Anyway, does anyone know what might have gone wrong here? |
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> > |
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> > thanks, |
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> |
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> Hmm thats what I said to pete before the depmod he added to the kernel-ebuild |
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> does not work. |
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> Do you have /lib/modules/2.4.0-ac11/modules.dep? |
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> If so take a look into it. |
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> There muste be some wrong path's tha point to /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8 |
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> change them to .../2.4.0-ac11 and rerun |
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> depmod -a |
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> then things should worke fine again. |
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> achim~ |
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No, the problem is probably that /boot wasn't mounted before you |
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merged the new package. This is exactly what happened to me when I |
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merged it w/o having /boot mounted. Just mv /boot/boot/bzImage |
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somewhere safe, then mount boot, then mv bzImage /boot/boot. Then |
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reboot. |
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Pete |