From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A808613877A for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:25:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58117E0923; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:25:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21D8BE08AC for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (mobile-internet-5d6aaa-114.dhcp.inet.fi [93.106.170.114]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C4CB34010E for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:25:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53D7D8F1.7090503@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:25:05 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] modules.devname not found... References: <53D7CAEB.2080601@gmail.com> <20140729182202.0bca6cc3@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140729182202.0bca6cc3@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 22079559-8835-4190-9070-8ea25986bb36 X-Archives-Hash: 576273d63f058e0370edb98fc107b618 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