modprobe and lsmod both give "command not found"

CarlUman

Not sure what happened but after doing a system update (emerge -uDv world) I can no longer run modprobe or lsmod. I'm trying to get nvidia setup so I get back into kde but no dice yet. Any ideas?

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Thanks much
Carl

mens · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 392 Location: Belgium

Could it be that /sbin is no longer in your $PATH ? try running /sbin/modprobe or /sbin/lsmod

Spiregrain · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 5 Location: London

Have you tried:

Logging in as root, since those commands might only be available to the root user?

Re-emerging the sys-apps/modutils package?

Looking for the executable files? Mine are in /sbin/?

grannyknot · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject:

Or you could look at the output of:

mens · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 392 Location: Belgium

CarlUman · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject:

I should have mentioned that they were missing from sbin as well.

mens · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 392 Location: Belgium

module-init-tools is a replacement for modutils. It was created to support the new features from 2.[56] like force unloading. I'm not sure if the latest version of modutils already supports all these new features. Switching to modules-init-tools can't hurt as it's backwards compatible with 2.4 kernels as well.

CarlUman · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:48 am Post subject:

Thanks. Now modprobe nvidia worked too

... wasn't working with modutils for some reason.