[gentoo-dev] modules.dep getting 0 bytes

[gentoo-dev] modules.dep getting 0 bytes

[Erik Van Reeth]

Hi,

I had a system with only kernel 2.4.4-ac9 in place, which boots perfectly.
I did a new kernel build via "ebuild
../sys-kernel/linux/linux-2.4.5.5.ebuild qmerge".
A new /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac5 directory was made. I added a new entry to
menu.lst to be able to boot the old kernel if the new one didn't worked.
Only all the *.dep files under /lib/modules/2.4.4-ac9 are being changed
with modules.dep being empty (0 bytes). So booting the older kernel gives
problems in loading
modules.
Also after booting kernel 2.4.5-ac5, the modules.* are automatic generated
but in the wrong
directory. They were created under 2.4.4-ac9 instead of 2.4.5-ac5.
Manually doing a depmod -a solved this behaviour.
Is there some reason for this behaviour or am i doing something wrong here ?

Greetz
Erik

Re: [gentoo-dev] modules.dep getting 0 bytes

[Daniel Robbins]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:35:08PM +0200, Erik Van Reeth wrote:

> I had a system with only kernel 2.4.4-ac9 in place, which boots perfectly.  I
> did a new kernel build via "ebuild ../sys-kernel/linux/linux-2.4.5.5.ebuild
> qmerge".  A new /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac5 directory was made. I added a new
> entry to menu.lst to be able to boot the old kernel if the new one didn't
> worked.  Only all the *.dep files under /lib/modules/2.4.4-ac9 are being
> changed with modules.dep being empty (0 bytes). So booting the older kernel
> gives problems in loading modules.  Also after booting kernel 2.4.5-ac5, the
> modules.* are automatic generated but in the wrong directory. They were
> created under 2.4.4-ac9 instead of 2.4.5-ac5.  Manually doing a depmod -a
> solved this behaviour.  Is there some reason for this behaviour or am i doing
> something wrong here ?

No, there is no good reason for this behavior; the modules initscript appears
to be broken.  We want to fix this soon.

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.