Bad problems with modules loading HELP

[kayard]

Something Happened without my doing anything (apparently) !!!
Today I turned on my laptop and during boot an error message appeared:
FAILED CHECKING MODULES DEPENDENCIES
As a result no module is loaded and i can't emerge anything since I don't have ppp module up and running. I tried with insmod but i only got some errors.

1) Does Any of you have an idea of what happened ? and what's more does anybody know what to do ?

I wanted to check a log to see if I could find out what the problem was but, as I'm a beginner, I don't know where a log file (say a boot log file) is supposed to be. So,

2) Where can I find my log files ? If it matters I use metalog.

Thanks ia lot

Kayard

PS: I hope the day I will manage to have a kde-Gentoo linux box is not too far...

[pilla]

Have you emerged modutils recently? Could you post the errors?

Try modprobe instead of insmod, or also insmod -f

Logs are usually inside /var/log

Finally, moving to Other Things Gentoo, as the system is already installed.

[kayard]

1) As concerns modutils, I emerged the whole system 2 days ago !

2) Modprobe doesn't work as well as insmod -f. I got errors like:
insmod -f ppoe
uresolved symbols in .....PPP.....

3) In /var/log/ I have a few files and some directories. I couldn't find anything useful. Well actually I couldn't find any log at all except emerge.log and Xfree86.log

Could you please post the full path to the boot or kernel log ?

4) One last question: there is no lspci in my system. What do I have to merge if I want to install it?

5)If I have to restart from the beginning, I would like to try kde 3.1 RC5. How can I merge it? if I write emerge kde it installs sort of kde 3.0.3 !

Thanks again

kayard

[rac]

To address your main problem, please see Error: Failed to calculate dependencies, especially iqt's post demonstrating that post count is inversely proportional to usefulness.