From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] modules.devname not found...
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:25:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D7D8F1.7090503@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140729182202.0bca6cc3@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On 29/07/14 20:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:25:15 +0200, Jarry wrote:
>
>> ________
>> * Creating list of required static device nodes for the current
>> kernel... Warning: /lib/modules/3.12.21-gentoo-r1/modules.devname not
>> found - ignor ________
>>
>> What does it mean and how can I get rid of it?
> By creating the missing file :)
>
>> Strange is, I do not have this message on any other system
>> (and I installed them the same way). All are updated, using
>> the same kernel. None of them is using modules, none of them
>> has /lib/modules/3.12.21-gentoo-r1/modules.devname and none
>> of them complains. Except this new one...
> /lib/modules/${uname -r)/modules.devname is created by depmod -a.
>
>
Right, and if he is using monolitic kernel with CONFIG_MODULES=n in
kernel /usr/src/linux/.config,
with no modules at all, then he should remove 'kmod-static-nodes' init
script from the runlevels
to silence the warning
That is, if that's really true, otherwise use `depmod -a`
- Samuli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-29 16:25 [gentoo-user] modules.devname not found Jarry
2014-07-29 17:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-07-29 17:25 ` Samuli Suominen [this message]
2014-07-29 17:32 ` Jarry
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