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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] modules.dep getting 0 bytes
Date: Sun Jun 10 15:06:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010610150542.C11767@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000901c0f1ec$d73451c0$a323a00f@lisa>; from erik@vanreeth.org on Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:35:08PM +0200

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.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			



      reply	other threads:[~2001-06-10 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-10 14:36 [gentoo-dev] modules.dep getting 0 bytes Erik Van Reeth
2001-06-10 15:06 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]

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