during boot: calculating dependencies failes

caefer

hi there,
i have a nice little gentoo on my box, a nicely working x and a slim kernel. BUT!
during booting 'calculating dependencies' failes...
and I don't know why.

any clue?

regards
/christian

drakonite · l33t Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Lincoln, NE

What do you mean calculating dependecies fails while booting?

I am not sure of anytime it says that while booting....

caefer · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:20 am Post subject:

drakonite · l33t Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Lincoln, NE

hmm... that seems odd...

Do you have it set to automatically emerge -up world when you bootup?

Or since you are in the Installing Gentoo forum.... are you talking about the bootstrap.sh script? (which is not booting but could be confused I guess)

darookee · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:26 pm Post subject:

it calculates module dependencies when loading the modules in modules.autoload
on some of my machines that failes, too and i don't know why : (

rtn · Guru Joined: 15 Nov 2002 Posts: 427

What does `depmod -a` say?

--rtn

DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris

Maybe you can try to : chmod -x /etc/modules.p/ppp
I don't know why, it's just a friend that tell me to try it, now I don't have no more this message !

zleepy · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 5:44 pm Post subject:

I get that on my laptop to, but not everytime.
Only when my networkcable is unplugged.
But everythings does seem to work so i havent realy been looking for the cause.

rac · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject:

For people with this problem: try running update-modules as root and see what it says.
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ViMan · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 51

You might have forgot to mount /boot before copying the kernel over (if you re-compiled the kernel)

caefer · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 8:09 am Post subject:

ok, I got rid of the error.

cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

The error in dependencies is caused by something being loaded incorrectly out of modules.autoload which can relate to anything from modules to executable ppp scripts.