Re: Broken links /sbin/ksyms and /sbin/kallsyms
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:09:11PM +0100, rdiezmail-debiankernel@yahoo.de wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> In Debian 4.0r1, the following 2 links in /sbin point to
> insmod.modutils, but that tool is not installed by default, and it
> probably would never be with a modern kernel (but please bear in mind
> that I'm a newcomer in this area).
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-10-23 13:49 kallsyms -> insmod.modutils
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-10-23 13:49 ksyms -> insmod.modutils
>
> Is that a bug? It's definitely confusing if you try to execute
> those ksyms/kallsyms commands.
Looks like modutils is the only package that provides those files. If
those links are installed broken, then yes - its probably a bug in
that package. Note that modutils is not maintained within the kernel
team.
--
dann frazier
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