HELP!!! Failed to Calculate Dependencies!!!

ViMan · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 51

I rebooted my system and while booting, I suddenly find the message: "Failing to Calculate Dependencies". No modules are loadable (my NVidia drivers were working perfectly and X was up and running before the reboot and now when I try to start X, it complains that it can't find the NVidia drivers. It gives me the message: "Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module!"). The last two things that I did before rebooting and encountering this message were:
1) Installed apmd
2) emerge rsync

But I don't think the problem is with apmd since I later uninstalled it without any problems. I tried recompiling the kernel to add APM support and when the kernel didn't work (it gave me the "Failing to Calculate Dependencies" error, I returned back to old kernel which was working well, but to no avail. Anybody have any idea what to do? Thanks for your time and waiting to hear from you...

PS. I also am using Portage 2.05 (I was using 2.07 but then downgraded) but I hear that it's semi-broken. The other Portage on my system are 1.somethings. I hear 2.04 is good. Should I download it and use it? Thanks again.

burzmali · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 238 Location: ca

i have a similar problem:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5995
but have gotten no useful replies.
update-modules force is supposed to fix it (so i am told)
but it doesn't.
did you reinstall nvidia-kernel after booting you new kernel?
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butters · Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 8:35 pm Post subject:

Recompile your kernel, without ACPI support or preemptive kernel, and with SMP support (if you are using the gentoo-sources kernel). When you do so, copy your .config file from /usr/src/linux to your home directory. Then make mrproper, and copy the .config file back into /usr/src/linux. Then make menuconfig and continue as in the gentoo installation directions. If that doesn't work, then kill apmd and see if that's the problem.
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akhkharu99 · Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 12:56 am Post subject:

did you try to emerge unmerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx, and then re-emerge them? you must do this every time you recompile your kernel.
p.s. portage 2.0.8 is out now, so you might want to give that a try. it works fine for me.

billatq · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 96

Sounds like you are missing some modules that were put in after you compiled your kernel. Remember to back up kernel modules that didn't come with the kernel, i.e. Nvidia or Alsa drivers or emerge them again after you've rebuilt the kernel.

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

Do as butters said, that should resolve your modules problems and yes I would downgrade to portage-2.0.4 since it still is the most stable version currently out.
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ViMan · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 51

I finally got rid of the problem by doing the following:
1) unmerging nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx
2) make mrproper
3) recompiling the kernel after selecting the features I wanted using make menuconfig
4) rebooting the system
5) emerging nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx
However, I am now going crazy because the driver does not want to work. The system detects it but after remodifying my XF86Config-4 file so that it has support for the nvidia driver (I had a copy of it when it was working with the NVidia driver), it won't start up X. The only way I can start X is to abandon using the nvidia driver and just use the nv driver. Also, there seems to be a problem in the sound. The sound on my system no longer works. Any suggestions? Thanks to burzmali, butters, akhkharu99, billatq and AutoBot for their help. But I was also wondering why AutoBot and butters suggest I add SMP support to the kernel. And is butters saying that I recompile my kernel without ACPI, etc. (by the way, I'm using APM, not ACPI) and after recompiling my kernel, copying the .config file and then rerun make menuconfig or what? Please elaborate. Thanks again for your responses and time. Hoping things get better. One final point. The error I get when I try to run X with the nvidia driver is as follows:
Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module!
although when I run lsmod, it shows up. Again, thanks for your responses and time and hoping someone can give me a hand.

PS. Also, when I did emerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, I did run opengl-update nvidia.

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ViMan · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 51

I finally found out what my problem was. I can't believe I didn't do this. I've been compiling kernels for about 2 days now trying to get it right without any module dependencies. In the end, I could get it pretty easily by running depmod -a after compiling the kernel and then modifying the .config file (or by running: menu xconfig). All I had to do was:
1) delete /lib/modules (of course, you can rename this if you don't want to delete it)
2) make mrproper and then compile the kernel (make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install)
3) MOUNT /boot (the trick here is that if you don't do it and go /boot, you'll find that it looks as if your /boot has been mounted). To check if it is mounted or not (it most likely isn't), run: mount and look for an entry for /boot. If it isn't, then run: mount /boot
4) copy the bzImage (you might want to rename it and edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst to make a new entry if you're using grub)
5) reboot
6) emerge nvidia-glx
7) opengl-update nvidia

modify your XF86Config-4 file to use the nvidia driver

AND IT WORKS!! BUT SERIOUSLY, AN ADMINISTRATOR SHOULD PUT THE PART ABOUT CHECKING TO MOUNT /boot BEFORE COPYING THE bzImage AS I'M SURE MANY KERNEL-RELATED PROBLEMS ARE DUE TO THIS SILLY MISTAKE. (or maybe modify the "Gentoo Linux Documentation part about compiling the kernel as I'm sure many refer to it to remember how to compile the kernel)

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

sulu · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 10:34 am Post subject:

lol.

I fell into the same trap.
Couldn't use devfs-support, compiled 100 kernels, no way.
Found that i didn't mount /boot .......

Mallrats · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 3:47 am Post subject:

how do I make mrproper
when I type it in on my system as a user or root I get
make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'. Stop

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

cd /usr/src/linux
first?

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out