calculating dependencies... FAIL!!!

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

so, out of the blue, gentoo decides to throw fits for me. its probably something i did, but for the life of me i cant figure out what. when it boots up it goes through the "calculating dependencies" step and fails. it then proceeds to fail to load up everything i need to get my network connection working including pcmcia. one it is booted, i can (as root) do the
-> insmod pcmcia_core
-> insmod i82365
-> insmod ds
-> cardmgr -f

and it comes right up. i really want it to load up correctly at boot. anyone else had this problem? can anyone help?

sebest · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 5:00 pm Post subject:

Doesn't it happen after you recompile your kernel?
If depmod -a gives you errors, it means that you should clean your modules and recompile them

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i didnt recompile my kernel though. ill try the depmod -a thing when i get home. but, that just seems awful odd.

sebest · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 5:15 pm Post subject:

The script who checks the dependencies is
/etc/init.d/modules

this is this part who fails for you :

ejwahl · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:26 pm Post subject:

sebest,

Thanks for the tip. I rebooted today and received the "Failed to calculate dependencies." Your advice pointed me in the right direction. The new baselayout moved /usr/sbin/update-modules to /sbin/update-modules. Relinking solved the problem.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

That's probably worth a bug report.
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ejwahl · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 12:50 am Post subject:

cArN4g3 · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:54 pm Post subject:

thx, this was my problem too, after a emerge -u world i think.

now it has been fix by using ur method.. great thanks again..

btw. i love this forum too

greetz carn

Dave0 · n00b Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 20

How exactly did you relink? I think I have the same problem. I looked in /usr/sbin/ and there wasn't and update-modules so I just copied the one from /sbin/ there. Was I supposed to do something else? I still get the error. Thanks

EatenByGrues · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

I had this same problem as well. I just modified /etc/init.d/modules though.

[F6]Menthal · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 4

i also have that problem and all the things said above didn't show a thing or helped, what can i do to solve this problem?

pilla · Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 12:57 am Post subject:

Have you read the bug report? There is a statement of this problem and the solution.