Subject: Re: Help, Yup update mismatched kernel and modules (I think)
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 09:27:45 MDT
Will,
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> I did a yup update on my B&W G3 the other day. It seemed to keep having
> problems downloading, so I kept doing it until it finally installed
> everything. But after this, modprobe decided to have problems.
It appears you chose to install the new kernel...
> For example,
> a call to modprobe dmasound produced this result:
>
> modprobe: can't open dependencies file
> /lib/modules/2.2.15-2.9.0/modules.dep (no such file or directory)
>
> I cd to /lib/modules and notice there is no 2.2.15-2.9.0 dir at all. There
> is now a 2.2.17-0.6.1 dir and that is all. This seems to correspond to the
> 2.2.17 kernel but for some reason modprobe (and depmod too) seem to want the
> old kernel module directory.
Have you rebooted since the update? IIRC you need to reboot after the kernel
upgrade to load the new kernel, with it's respective set of modules (is there
an ioctl for this?).
> My question is- why is this? Did yup screw me up somehow? How can I convince
> modprobe and depmod to adjust to the new kernel? I tried making a soft link
> to the 2.2.17 dir calling it 2.2.15-2.9.0 but modprobe complained about
> every module when used, so that didn't work (I know, dumb idea, but I
> thought I'd give it a try). I tried to update modutils with yup, but there
> is no new version of modutils, so it must be a configuration problem.
> Documentation said something about recompiling the mod utils when
> recompiling the kernel, but did not provide much help for using precompiled
> kernels.
I suggest a reboot.
> As a funny aside, my co-workers and I used to call something like this
> "forgetting the porehole key." This term we used to ascribe to any action or
> config operation that was hard to remember or find in documentation, but
> prevented use of software until it was found. It comes from a Green Acres
> episode where Mr. Douglas kept painting his house, and the house would
> repeatedly suck in the paint. Upon confronting the infamous Mr. Haney, Mr.
> Douglas was informed that he forgot to use the porehole key before painting
> (which of course he had to buy from Mr. Haney).
Heheh... ;)
> So, anyone who knows what porehole key I forgot to use, please let me know.
> It sure seems like there are quite a few porehole keys in Unix.
>
> "Porehole key, ohhh, that's rediculous!"
>
> --William K. Gibson
> 1stDesk Systems
> firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
Best Regards,
Charles Stevenson
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