/etc/modules.devfs has not been generated [solved sort of]

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marky9074 · Post by **marky9074** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:15 pm

Recently updated a few things, including baselayout and now have this error:

/etc/modules.devfs has not been automatically generated.

Still using the 2.4.32-sparc-r2 kernel.

Emerge devfsd again, to no avail (I did have a modprobe.devfs file also, but this did not appear to do anything, and it was not recreated when emerging).. I know that this is not a show stopper, but am intigued to find out why this has happened and how to cure it...

Tried google, and searched gentoo, but all hits refer to people that have migrated kernels and no longer use devfsd....

Mark

Weeve · Post by **Weeve** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:54 pm

Looks like the comments in the file suggest to run modules-update. Have you tried that?

marky9074 · Post by **marky9074** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:11 am

Yeah, yeah. The earlier was the reponse from 'modules-update'. Then it says to use 'modules-update force', which runs without errors, but doesnt solve anything. I am considering migrating to 2.6 kernel (as I have the other issues with the keymap as well), but I am happy with my headless box as it is...

I notice that in the package database online it shows gentoo-sources as unmasked? Whereas if I search for this it is still masked. I find it surprising that the whole 2.6 tree is unmasked, and assume this is a html error?

Mark

Weeve · Post by **Weeve** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:43 pm

If you don't have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" in your make.conf file or "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources ~sparc" in /etc/portage/package.keywords, chances are that it will show up as masked.

2.6 kernels are fairly stable for most folks these days. However Ultra 1s and Ultra 2s still seem prone to the occasional lockup under high disk I/O.

marky9074 · Post by **marky9074** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:17 pm

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply. I was running a 2.6 kernel before OK, just this time I just went the easy route.....

What I meant by the earlier post though, is that most of the tree is marked stable '+' in the online package database, whereas like you say they should all be '~'??

In my situation, is it literally a case of removing devfs, emerge udev and gentoo-sources (compile) and that is it?

Mark

marky9074 · Post by **marky9074** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:48 am

marky9074 wrote: What I meant by the earlier post though, is that most of the tree is marked stable '+' in the online package database, whereas like you say they should all be '~'??

http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?ca ... sys-kernel

marky9074 · Post by **marky9074** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:33 am

Just changed my profile and the 2.6 kernel really is marked as stable! Ok, I am going for it!

Mark

marky9074 · Post by **marky9074** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:18 pm

Migration went OK without any problems, and as most of the 2.6 tree is now marked as stable, it shouldnt be a problem for anyone else either...

Mark

w.hill · Post by **w.hill** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:28 am

Did you find a fix for the original problem? My SB 100 with a 2.4 kernel started complaining as well [Same Error Message] modules-update force doesn't make the problem go away. I think, but I'm not sure that it was a base-layout update that started the problem. I might try and roll backwards to see if I can find the source of the message. I also get an insmod error a little later in the boot procces.

marky9074 · Post by **marky9074** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:41 am

No I didnt fix the problem and accepted defeat and migrated to 2.6 kernel. I did some searching on here and noted mention of baselayout, and remember this had been updated recently, and just put two and two together! The migration actually went very well and with no problems....

godzilla · Post by **godzilla** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:17 pm

I have the same problem too. I think it started after "emerge --update --deep world". I do not remember what packages were updated, but there was not much installed at that time.

marky9074 · Post by **marky9074** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:56 pm

godzilla wrote:I have the same problem too. I think it started after "emerge --update --deep world". I do not remember what packages were updated, but there was not much installed at that time.

Yep, same as me after a "emerge --update --deep world"...

w.hill · Post by **w.hill** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:24 am

I've done a lot of digging around and believe that this might be a bug.

/sbin-modules-update

Starting at line 143

143 for x in ${CFGFILES} ; do
144 [[ -r ${x} ]] || continue
145
146 if [[ $(sed -ne 1p "${x}") != "${HEADER}" ]] ; then
147 ewarn "Warning: the current ${x} has not been automatica lly generated"

I think I seen a previous BUG report where the expected header of the file was not found. /etc/modules.devfs

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3516 Feb 19 2006 modules.devfs

I'm not sure how to decipher the expression

RTFM time.

[EDIT]sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r7 has just been release - The error persists[/EDIT]