Subject: Re: module loading problems on custom built kernel
From: Neill Miller (stuff@thecodefactory.org)
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 13:40:46 MDT
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:05:11 -0700
"Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 8:53 PM -0500 9/29/01, Neill Miller wrote:
> >Hello,
> > I'm a recent convert to YDL 2.0 from Linux/PPC 2000 Q4 using a
> >Powerbook G3 2000 (Pismo/Firewire). I've successfully recompiled a new
> >kernel and it's running fine - however *no* modules will load due to a
> >large number of unresolved symbols.
>
> YDL 2.0 shipped with a modutils RPM that did not include the depmod
> tool. depmod is used during the kernel build process to process
> symbol dependencies for modules; if you don't have it the modules
> will build but will fail to load as you've experienced. YDL has an
> update to modutils on their FTP site which fixes this problem.
Tim,
Thanks for the solution. I had upgraded my package of modutils (to one even later than the YDL provided one) and was skeptical that this would work. But lo and behold, it fixed the problems I've described. Thanks so much!
-Neill.
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