Can anybody help me with this, I am now really desperate for a solution. Yesterday everything was working OK. Today I start my SuSE 7.3 box and my boot log is full of failed messages and I cannot start X. It appears that somehow I have lost my modules.dep file. At the start of my boot.msg file it shows: "doneSetting up /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB failed" and subsequently reports several entries: "modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/modules.dep (No such file or directory)" When I do a "depmod -a" it reports: depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.20-GB/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for ieee194_device_size It is likely that the kernel structure has changed, if so then you probably need a new version of modutils to handle this kernel. Check linux/Documentation/Changes. I have not changed the kernel structure, or anything else in the last week or more and I don't have any ieee1394 hardware installed. I have spent the day searching the kb, list archives and google, but the only info I can find relates to recompiling the kernel, which is not relevant to my situation. Any advice or guidance on a solution this problem would be appreciated. Regards Dave
* Dave Barton (bmcs@ozemail.com.au) [020529 04:27]:
"doneSetting up /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB failed"
and subsequently reports several entries:
"modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/modules.dep (No such file or directory)"
When I do a "depmod -a" it reports:
depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.20-GB/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for ^^^^^^^^^^ Is that really what it says? There must be be something you aren't telling us--modutils doesn't suddenly downgrade itself.
You can try moving sbp2.o to /tmp and running 'depmod -a' again but I think you have more serious problems. -- -ckm
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 02:14, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Dave Barton (bmcs@ozemail.com.au) [020529 04:27]:
"doneSetting up /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB failed"
and subsequently reports several entries:
"modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/modules.dep (No such file or directory)"
When I do a "depmod -a" it reports:
depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.20-GB/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for ^^^^^^^^^^ Is that really what it says?
Yes that is exactly what it says.
There must be be something you aren't telling us--modutils doesn't suddenly downgrade itself.
No I told you everything exactly as it was. I had not made any system changes or installed any new applications for at least 10 days and this box is shut down every night and restarted every day, so the problem must have occurred in the session before the last shutdown. The only thing that comes to mind for that day, is that I did "inadvertently" try to start VMWare Express while logged in as root.
You can try moving sbp2.o to /tmp and running 'depmod -a' again but I think you have more serious problems.
Thanks very much, that did the trick, but I did have to run vmware-config.pl again to get VMWare Express working again. Again many thanks for your advice. Kindest Regards Dave
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