update-modules problem

tonyl · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

Hi,

I have just installed gentoo after running mandrake for the last 3 years.
Aftere the basic install I emerged kde and am now trying to set up alsa.

After following the alsa guide and run update-modules I get the following error:

<snip>
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/2
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/kernel/drivers/block/DAC960.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/kernel/drivers/block/nbd.o
</snip>

There are about 100 of the depmod errors.

The first line is worrying there is no such directory as read ELF header /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/2, and I don't understand the bit about cant read ELF headers.

Can anyone offer any advice.

Many thanks
tony

rac · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 10:17 am Post subject:

First off, can you try

tonyl · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

I have tried that and it didn't work but on further investigation something seems to have gome horribly wrong somewhere

Here's what I did while trying to install alsa:

# cd /usr/src/linux
# cp .config ~
# make mrproper
# cp ~/.config .
# make menuconfig

(build sound support as a module dissable all soundcard modules)
# make dep clean
# make modules modules_install

I then tried, as suggested deleting the modules directory and running make modules_install again.

just for good measure I rebooted and now I cant even install my nic driver so I have lost networking as well.

I'm a little stuck now. Unless anyone can offer a better solution I guess a complete kernel rebuild may be good right now.

Tony

ahr · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 3:40 pm Post subject:

That's exacly what I did and I get the same depmod errors you do.

And I don't know what to do, I've tryed rebuilding the entire kernel but I still get receive the errors :\

tonyl · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

I reinstalled the whole system took another 2 days

Still had the same errors and couldn't fix it so I've re-installed mandrake. Shame, while it did work it was real fast.

Tony

BackSeat · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 4:54 pm Post subject:

What processor do you have? What CFLAFS setting do you have in /etc/make.conf?

BS

tonyl · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

the processor is a celeron, I can't remember exactly what the flags were (it's no longer on my system) but I just uncommented the first line in there which I think was pentium/athlon.

could this be the problem? I have just realised this is a celeron as all my other machines are athlons.

Tony

masseya · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 9:22 pm Post subject:

I don't think the values of the CFLAGS in your make.conf will affect your kernel compilation. This is done because the kernel's on settings for gcc flags are already quite optimized. I don't really know what the source of your problems are, but I don't think that's it.
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