Calculating Dependencies FAIL! (during 'update-modules')

[dufeu]

I rebuilt my system (from scratch using stage3 athlon xp tarball) last week. For the most part, it's back together. However, I now have two problems which I don't know how to solve.

1) During booting, I get the message

Calculating Dependencies FAIL!

When I look further, this occurs when the boot process runs 'update-modules'. When I run update-modules manually, I get this:

dragon root # update-modules
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 1: alias: char-major-108: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 1: alias: ppp_generic: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 2: alias: /dev/ppp: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 2: alias: ppp_generic: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 3: alias: tty-ldisc-3: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 3: alias: ppp_async: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 4: alias: tty-ldisc-13: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 4: alias: n_hdlc: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 5: alias: tty-ldisc-14: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 5: alias: ppp_synctty: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 6: alias: ppp-compress-21: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 6: alias: bsd_comp: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 7: alias: ppp-compress-24: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 7: alias: ppp_deflate: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 8: alias: ppp-compress-26: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 8: alias: ppp_deflate: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 9: alias: net-pf-24: not found
/etc/modules.d/ppp: line 9: alias: pppoe: not found
dragon root #

Problem number two happens when I compile a new kernel. It doesn't matter if I use vanilla-sources-2.4.19 or vanilla-sources-2.4.20. I get unresolved symbols:

mkdir -p pcmcia; \
find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.20; fi
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-hydra.o
depmod: i2c_bit_add_bus_Rsmp_d53ef5ba
depmod: i2c_bit_del_bus_Rsmp_2e7322be
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-i810.o
depmod: i2c_bit_add_bus_Rsmp_d53ef5ba
depmod: i2c_bit_del_bus_Rsmp_2e7322be
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-savage4.o
depmod: i2c_bit_add_bus_Rsmp_d53ef5ba
depmod: i2c_bit_del_bus_Rsmp_2e7322be
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-via.o
depmod: i2c_bit_add_bus_Rsmp_d53ef5ba
depmod: i2c_bit_del_bus_Rsmp_2e7322be
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-voodoo3.o
depmod: i2c_bit_add_bus_Rsmp_d53ef5ba
depmod: i2c_bit_del_bus_Rsmp_2e7322be
dragon linux #

Advice would be appreciated. If you need me to provide further info, tell me what and where to find it please.
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[rac]

Generally, it's easier for everybody if you can split different questions into different threads in the future.

For question 1, search the forums for "dependencies and ppp" and you should find Error: Failed to calculate dependencies. iqt's post may be of interest.

For question 2, if you do not have a multi-CPU machine, turn SMP off in your kernel. Either way, run make mrproper to clean up dependency information. A forum search for mrproper will give you some exact command sequences if you're not familiar with the process, and also warn you about how not to lose your .config file.
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[dufeu]

I will indeed stop being lazy and split my problems up into separate messages.

FWIW:

dragon modules.d # ls -l
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1309 Nov 25 19:38 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080 Nov 29 16:53 alsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122 Nov 25 19:38 i386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Nov 30 17:59 nvidia
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 268 Nov 23 01:30 ppp
dragon modules.d # chmod a-x ppp
dragon modules.d # ls -l
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1309 Nov 25 19:38 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080 Nov 29 16:53 alsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122 Nov 25 19:38 i386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Nov 30 17:59 nvidia
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268 Nov 23 01:30 ppp
dragon modules.d # cd ,,
-bash: cd: ,,: No such file or directory
dragon modules.d # cd ..
dragon etc # update-modules
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-hydra.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-i810.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-savage4.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-via.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/misc/i2c-voodoo3.o
dragon etc #

I am now off to look at 'mrproper'.
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