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[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sven.Hartrumpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2005, I wrote:
>
>
> > On a SuSE 9.0 system, kernel modules are not found after a kernel
> > upgrade from k_athlon-2.4.21-286 to k_athlon-2.4.21-291.
> > /var/log/messages shows that the wrong modules.dep is searched for:
> >
> > Jun 10 08:50:45 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies
> > file /lib/modules/2.4.21-286-athlon/modules.dep (No such file or direc
> > tory)
> >
> > Fortunately, switching back to k_athlon-2.4.21-286 was easy.
> > Has anybody encountered the same problem?
> > Or is it just me?
>
>
> On an identical machine, the upgrade worked perfectly.
> So it looks like the problem was caused by some special
> problems on this _one_ machine;
> the reported problem should not occur somewhere else.
>
> Sven

If the modules exist, "depmod -ae k_athlon-2.4.21-291" will create 
modules.dep.
Regards
Sid.
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