I've just been asked to have a look at a SuSE 9.3 machine which hasn't been rebooted in 188 days. It seems to have lost the ability to mount filesystems (sorry for the poor description), although the machine is running and appears otherwise healthy. ~ # tail /var/log/messages Nov 10 07:56:56 box1 modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-smp/modules.dep: No such file or directory ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 24319 195342336 83 Linux (this is an ext3 partition) ~ # mount /dev/sdb1 /two mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext3' (I've also tried mounting xfs and reiserfs filesystems and that doesn't work either). ~ # uname -a Linux box1 2.6.11.4-20a-smp #1 SMP Wed Mar 23 21:52:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ~ # mount /dev/sda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy_1 type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) Why is /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-smp/modules.dep apparently missing? If I go to yast2 and check for updates it seems some were applied ten days ago - I would imagine that includes kernel updates, but the machine obviously wasn't rebooted after patching. Is there a detailed log file of what's been applied via yast online update? Could it be that a kernel update has been done and the machine simply needs a reboot, or is this a sign of something far more serious? Thanks in advance for any suggestions James