can't load modules with kernel-2.6.8.1 [solved]

bulash · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

I'm having problems loading modules after a kernel upgrade. Everything works fine with 2.6.7 (development-sources), but with 2.6.8.1 not a single module can be loaded:

Fabiolla · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

Hello,
what does ls -l /lib/modules show ?
I had once the same problem, the reason in my case was, that I forgot to make modules_install.

bulash · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

no, they are all there. I didn't forget to install them.

Sgaduuw · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject:

try running "depmod -a" and then modprobing your modules
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bulash · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

thanks for the quick replies

however, after depmod -a the modules still weren't found...

bulash · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

installed linux26-headers and now it seems ok...

drakos7 · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject:

Yeah, when was anyone notified about this switch from linux-headers to linux26-headers? Messed me up for a while that is for sure. So are all of us 2.6.8 kernel users supposed to

drakos7 · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:

plate · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:06 am Post subject:

Now, if you happen to keep your distfiles on an NFS share, have a modular NIC and a broken CD-ROM drive like myself :oops:

, this needs a little more effort. I had to compile a non-modular kernel to get back online after the next reboot, then re-emerge module-init-tools (which indeed fixes this problem).

I'm running a modular kernel 2.6.8.1-mm4 again now, and I'm making this sticky for a couple of days since I expect other people to fall into the same trap of "accidentally" emerging modutils-2.4.27, when it's really just a relic in their world file from the old days, and should be disregarded if they don't plan on reverting to a 2.4 kernel...

yutt · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 59

I just went through the same ordeal as plate. I do not understand why all of the sudden this happened. I have never used a 2.4 kernel, and never had a problem until this morning.

I shut my PC off every night (saves electricity), but booting this morning I see no modules are loading, and since my NIC is modular I had no way to even figure out what was going on, or easily fix it once I did.

I'm in the process of fixing it right now. This is incredibly frustrating.

yutt · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 59

I am trying;

Paranoid · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject:

This was a problem for me also-unmerge module-init-tools-3.0-r2 and go back to r1. BINGO
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cram · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:

Paranoid · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject:

Didn't work for me but let me say I have a rather large buzz-on. It was the quickest fix I could come up with. Tomorrow I will explore it further.

EDIT:getting rid of modutils & recompiling module-init-tools-3.0-r2 does indeed work.
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b1c1l1 · n00b Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 39

EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1742 Location: Kentucky

Glad I found this thread. It needs a bump. I had the same problem, none of my modules would load. After I booted into my "rescue" partition and chrooting into Gentoo I reemerged module-init-tools and all is well again.
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Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

majx · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: Bug already filled

There is an opened bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61854
Have added my comment...

CodAv · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Bug already filled

mbjr · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 12:14 pm Post subject:

I'm having the same problem and well, I'm working on removing modutils... but I get the following:

rastachops · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Hi

I've got the same sort of problem with loading a module for my via-rhine NIC. QM_MODULES problem. So I unmerged modutils then tried to emerge module-init-tools but rather than using the file in /usr/portage/.... it tries, unsuccessfully to download this from the web.

So I resorted to going into the directory where the module-init-tools pack is and had a go at installing it manually (unpack,configure,make,make install). Is that the correct way to do it? If not how should I install it manually? If this is totallly the wrong approach can anyone offer me some help?

Cheers & TIA

jammib · n00b Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 35 Location: UK

bennettp · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject:

rastachops: cd into /usr/portage/sys-apps/module-init-tools. Check to see if you still have the old ebuild for the module-init-tools package. If you do, great! Just run "emerge /usr/portage/sys-apps/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-<version>.ebuild", where <version> is the version of the package you have in /usr/portage/distfiles.

If you're using a 2.6 kernel, add sys-apps/modutils to /etc/portage/package.mask; this will prevent it from ever being used again!

Edit: oops, that should be package.mask, not package.unmask!

(I had the QM_OMDULES problem yesterday! I need to use wlan-ng, which is modular only, to get around my buggy firmware. I hopped onto my brother's computer, burnt module-init-tools, and put it into my computer, only to find that I'd compiled the iso9660 filesystem as a module! :twisted:

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rastachops · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

I have: