Re: [gentoo-dev] module dependency issues with new kernel

Pete Gavin wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:34:11AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> > Dave Bresson wrote:
> >
> > > So i decided to switch to the new 2.4.0.11-rc3 kernel, not only because of
> > > the few improvements, but also i just prefer to make my own, slimmed down,
> > > more optimized kernel for my machine.  Anyway, i merged the linux source
> > > of the kernel in question from portage, and all was fine.  I then did a
> > > 'make menuconfig', then a 'make bzImage', 'make modules', and 'make
> > > modules_install'.  Now i know i didn't include or exclude anything i
> > > shouldn't have (i've rolled my own kernel plenty of times), however when
> > > booting with my new kernel i get "Error configuring module dependencies."
> > > As such, the modules don't work (most importantly my ethernet driver).  I
> > > know the drivers compiled and installed in the right spot, since i can
> > > manually do an 'insmod' for my net driver, and then restart the inet
> > > script.  So there must be some sort of configuration issue going on i
> > > don't know about.  Here a sample of some of the boot errors from
> > > /var/log/boot:
> > >
> > > Calculating kernel module dependencies...
> > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/char/pc
> > > mcia/serial_cb.o
> > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/char/pc
> > > mcia/serial_cs.o
> > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/isdn/av
> > > mb1/avm_cs.o
> > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/md/line
> > > ar.o
> > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8/kernel/drivers/md/raid
> > > 0.o
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Auto-generating 2.4.0-ac11 modules.conf...
> > > modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.0-ac11/modules.dep
> > > (No such file or directory)

That meas that bzImage has the correct version.

achim~

>
> > >
> > > And that about ends the errors.  Well, right after that it tries to insert
> > > the net driver, but fails.  You get the drift.  Anyway, it looks like from
> > > the errors that it's still trying to load the modules my old kernel used,
> > > but from my new kernel's mod directory (where they don't exist, since i
> > > didn't need them for my new kernel).  However, i still have the same net
> > > module for both kernels, and even that didn't work.  Something is
> > > definitely wrong.  Somewhere along the line i must've forgotten something
> > > neccessary to configure the correct module dependencies and such.  Could
> > > this have anything to do with the discussed 'depmod -a' call from one of
> > > the other threads on the list?  Since Pete just put that in, i doubt the
> > > ebuild script i used did this (the one i had was from this morning).
> > > Anyway, does anyone know what might have gone wrong here?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> >
> > Hmm thats what I said to pete before the depmod he added to the kernel-ebuild
> > does not work.
> >
> > Do you have /lib/modules/2.4.0-ac11/modules.dep?
> >
> > If so take a look into it.
> >
> > There muste be some wrong path's tha point to /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre8
> >
> > change them to .../2.4.0-ac11 and rerun
> >
> > depmod -a
> >
> > then things should worke fine again.
> >
> > achim~
> >
>
> No, the problem is probably that /boot wasn't mounted before you
> merged the new package. This is exactly what happened to me when I
> merged it w/o having /boot mounted. Just mv /boot/boot/bzImage
> somewhere safe, then mount boot, then mv bzImage /boot/boot. Then
> reboot.
>
> Pete
>
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