Re: [gentoo-user] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:47:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
>>   Is my netbook dying, or is something else wrong?  This is an older
>> 32-bit Atom netbook, with
>> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables"
>> and 'MAKEOPTS="-j1"'.  Compiling the kernel works OK, but
>> "make modules_install" dies as follows...
>
>   I unmasked kernel 3.5.7-r1 (no, I don't run ext4) and tried again.  I
> got...
>
> [aa1][root][/usr/src/linux] make modules_install
>   INSTALL drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.ko
>   INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
>   INSTALL drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko
>   DEPMOD  3.5.7-gentoo-r1
> depmod: /lib/modules/3.5.7-gentoo-r1/modules.builtin is not an ELF file
> depmod: /lib/modules/3.5.7-gentoo-r1/modules.order is not an ELF file
> make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1
>
>   Both of these are textfiles, but there were a few *.bin files in the
> previous kernel build error list.  This is a 32-bit machine running gcc
> 4.6.3.  My desktop, also running in 32-bit mode with kernel 3.5.7-r1 and
> gcc 4.6.3, has no such problem.  Any ideas?

At some point in the past few months I think module-init-tools was
replaced by another package (kmod perhaps, I'm going from memory)... I
am wondering if it has something to do with that transition.