Module Dependency on Boot-up

nayan · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Watford, U.K.

Everything on my machine seems to be working OK -- Samba, kde, gcc, etc. -- but there's an error message on boot-up that keeps bugging me. It's when the kernel checks for module dependency, and comes up with an error! Do I need to rebuild the kernel?

It's odd since the problem appeared just today, it wasn't there before. And in the meantime, the only thing I have done is to re-emerge xfree (version 4.2.0) together with kde and kdebase, and install samba, edit the inetd.conf file and run the command:

rc-update add inetd default

And I start samba manually (at the moment) by running the commands:

smbd
nmbd

Somehow, I don't see how it can be samba, though, as it runs OK. And I doubt whether kde or xfree has anything to do with the kernel modules w.r.t. dependency.

Can anyone shed some light on this please?

Regards,

Nayan.
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nayan · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Watford, U.K.

Looking at a previous thread on the Gentoo Forums, I did a fresh modules install:

a) backed up /lib/modules/<mod dir>
b) cd /usr/src/linux
c) make modules modules_install
d) rebooted the machine

Still, same old problem. Any clues?
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Regards,

Nayan.

rac · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 6:47 am Post subject:

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nempo · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 8:56 am Post subject:

I had this, turns out, all I had to do was to update all the '._*' files in /etc/

vers_iq · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 264

i guess u need to run etc-update, the reason is update-modules has been moved from /usr/bin to /sbin.

nayan · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Watford, U.K.

I did the following, as root:

a) update-modules
Result: none -- just shows root prompt after executing.

b) find /etc -iname '._c*'

Result: no files found

c) etc-update

Result:
Scanning Configuration files...
Exiting: No files to work on!

d) I thought I'd rebuild the kernel:

make mrproper
make menuconfig
make dep
make clean bzImage modules modules_install
mount /dev/hda7 /boot
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot
reboot after running lilo, etc.

Result: same old story! still get those dependency errors on boot

ran the command:

lsmod

Result:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
usbcore 41120 0 (unused)

When I rebuilt the kernel, I specified SMB to be built-in instead of as a module.

What gives?
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Regards,

Nayan.

nayan · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Watford, U.K.

Came across the following bug report:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9932

I have created a soft-link between /usr/sbin/update-modules and /sbin/update-modules, and it works OK now. All those hours of pulling my hair out and rebuilding, and rebuilding, and rebuilding the kernel.... <tch tch>

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, rac, nempo and vers_iq!

Warm regards from rainy Watford,

Nayan.