Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:57:39
Message-Id: 454771C4.6010300@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error by Sean
1 Sean wrote:
2 > Mathieu Seigneurin wrote:
3 >> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 16:23, Daniel Iliev wrote:
4 >>> Sean wrote:
5 >>>> Thanks, forgot the -C is clean or remove.
6 >>>> Followed your steps and on the modprobe line received the following
7 >>>> 'FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
8 >>>> (/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r9/video/nvidia.ko): Invalid module
9 >>>> format'
10 >>> That is not supposed to happen. ;-(
11 >>> Did you get any errors from "emerge nvidia-drivers"?
12 >>>
13 >>> Please, re-emege nvidia-drivers again and watch its output. I
14 >>> suppose it
15 >>> should say something about your "kernel tree/sources".
16 >>>
17 >>> --
18 >>> Best regards,
19 >>> Daniel
20 >> Also look at what dmesg says - you probably have more details about the
21 >> error there.
22 >> And make sure you emerge nvidia-drivers with the same version of GCC as
23 >> you used to build your active kernel.
24 >>
25 >> Regards,
26 >> Mat
27 >
28 > I already had looked at dmesg. Since upgrading gcc many, if not all my
29 > modules are now having problems. I wanted to try to get X working
30 > first, then the others.
31
32 I would say that upgrading gcc and the problems with your kernel modules
33 are not related but if you have such problems, you have to rebuild the
34 kernel no matter the reason.
35
36 --
37 Best regards,
38 Daniel
39
40
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error Sean <tech.junk@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --newuse world error Jason <gentoo@××××××××××.net>