Re: troubling modules

Marco Mariani (m.mariani@imola.nettuno.it)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:04:36 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Richard Henderson wrote:

> > modprobe: kernel: QM_SYMBOLS: Function not implemented
>
> You built a kernel that doesn't support modules.

Uhmm... excuse me.. :-(

[ reboot with correct kernel ]

shalott:~# depmod -a
modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory
shalott:~#

*THIS* is the message I meant.

ldso 1.8.10-1 (debian)
libc5 5.4.23-2
binutils 2.7.0.9-3
gcc 2.7.2.1-4

modutils 2.1.34 (compiled under 2.1.35)
kernel 2.1.35

This is with Example.modules.conf.

If I use the conf.modules provided by modutils_2.1.23-4.deb, I get:

shalott:/lib/modules# depmod -a
TYPE /lib/modules/boot/boot
TYPE /lib/modules/2.1.35/fs/fs
TYPE /lib/modules/2.1.35/net/net
TYPE /lib/modules/2.1.35/scsi/scsi
TYPE /lib/modules/2.1.35/block/block
TYPE /lib/modules/2.1.35/cdrom/cdrom
TYPE /lib/modules/2.1.35/ipv4/ipv4
TYPE /lib/modules/2.1.35/misc/misc
TYPE /lib/modules/`kernelversion`/fs/fs
TYPE /lib/modules/`kernelversion`/net/net
TYPE /lib/modules/`kernelversion`/scsi/scsi
TYPE /lib/modules/`kernelversion`/block/block
TYPE /lib/modules/`kernelversion`/cdrom/cdrom
TYPE /lib/modules/`kernelversion`/ipv4/ipv4
TYPE /lib/modules/`kernelversion`/misc/misc
TYPE /lib/modules/fs/fs
TYPE /lib/modules/net/net
TYPE /lib/modules/scsi/scsi
TYPE /lib/modules/block/block
TYPE /lib/modules/cdrom/cdrom
TYPE /lib/modules/ipv4/ipv4
TYPE /lib/modules/misc/misc
shalott:/lib/modules#

Either way, modules.dep is void.

All The Best,
Marco

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