Re: Something wrong with potato modutils
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
> > I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had
> > a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine
> > is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep.
>
> It's a warning which can be safely ignored. modules.dep is remade on
> boot, while modules.conf is only generated when needed. As a result it
> tends to be older, which triggers this warning.
>
> > Somehow, the depmod -a from init.d script seems to be not writing the
> > modules.dep. When I run depmod -a manually, the modules.dep gets
> > created. Next time, I boot, there is a old modules.dep in my
> > /lib/modules.
>
> How you have me confused.. how can the script not write modules.dep
> while you still get the error that modules.conf is older then that
> file? Something doesn't add up here..
This is a known problem. See:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/47/47830.html
--
Jean Pierre
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