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Yeric
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 Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:42 pm Post subject: Unable to calculate Dependencies On boot |
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Hi 
I am getting an annoying, if perhaps harmless error on boot
Unable to calculate dependencies
The boot process slows right down then instead of the lovely green OK
I get !!
The system appears to work ok but I would like ot fix this error
Anyone help me out ?
BTW I do not hink it is kernel related
I have done a modules-update
no errors
and a depmod -a
no errors
Help
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ravenq
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What modules are you loading at startup? It could be a specific module that is causing this problem.
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tux-fan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Have had the same problem a few weeks ago. If I remember right I have outcommened the entries in /etc/modules.d/ppp |
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scotte
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same problem as Yeric. Interestingly, I even had the problem when I had everything compiled into the kernel, using no loadable modules at all!
This is on 1.4rc2. |
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Bloke2k
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| try commenting out modules in modules.autoload and see what happens then add one at time till you see what is causing the problem |
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Yeric
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| ravenq wrote: | | What modules are you loading at startup? It could be a specific module that is causing this problem. |
Hi thanks for getting back to me
Ok the only 3 modules I have in my modules.autoload are
aic7xxx <=== My adaptec U2W SCSI Card
advansys <==== My other SCSI Card For DDS Tape
8139too <=== Mys NIC Card
I think but am not entirely sure that SCSI stuff and nic gets loaded before this error, the error occurrs towards end of boot sequence
anoyingly enough dmesg reveals nothing of this error |
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Yeric
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| scotte wrote: | I have the same problem as Yeric. Interestingly, I even had the problem when I had everything compiled into the kernel, using no loadable modules at all!
This is on 1.4rc2. |
Yes mine is also 1.4_RC2
BTW does nayone know the easest way to upgrade to new RC3
would an emerge -e --deep system do the job or is it more complicated ? |
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scotte
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeric wrote: |
BTW does nayone know the easest way to upgrade to new RC3
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Supposedly, it's just a matter of: "emerge sync; emerge -u system; emerge -u world", though I haven't done it yet. I've seen a few other threads on the topic that are worthy of looking at... |
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Yeric
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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danm this unable to calculate dependencies thing
it now just hangs there
Gentoo 1.4_RC2 Stage 1 start
Abit KG7 Lite
512MB Ram
ATI Rage Pro 4mb GFX
1 X Maxtor ata 133 40GB HD IDE
1 X Adpatec U2W SCSI PCI Card
1 X Advansys SCSI
3 X Seagate HD's 18, 9, 4 GB
1 X Seagte Archive Python 96 DDS3 Autoloader
Realtek 8139 NIC
boot EXT2
/ Reiser
/usr Reiser
/home Reiser
/var Reiser
what gives here I cant believe it is a kernel compile problem because I do not get any unresolved dependencies from a modules-update or depmod
TIA |
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herring
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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had this problem myself a while ago, somehow my
/etc/init.d/modules script had wrong path to 'modules-update'.
Look for:
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ebegin "Calculating module dependencies"
/sbin/modules-update &>/dev/null
eend $? "Failed to calculate dependencies"
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Yeric
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| herring wrote: | had this problem myself a while ago, somehow my
/etc/init.d/modules script had wrong path to 'modules-update'.
Look for:
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ebegin "Calculating module dependencies"
/sbin/modules-update &>/dev/null
eend $? "Failed to calculate dependencies"
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Ok sorry but what should I be looking for in init.d/modules?
the path to modules-update ??
Sorry I am having a blank moment  |
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scotte
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| herring wrote: | had this problem myself a while ago, somehow my
/etc/init.d/modules script had wrong path to 'modules-update'.
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Hmm! "/etc/init.d/modules" references "/sbin/modules-update" which I don't have! I do have a "/sbin/update-modules".
Looks like I'm just missing the symbolic link between the two, based on what I see in /var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.5.8/image/sbin/...
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herring
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Open the file, see if line actually is
/sbin/modules-update...
not /usr/bin/modules-update or something. |
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Yeric
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| herring wrote: |
Open the file, see if line actually is
/sbin/modules-update...
not /usr/bin/modules-update or something. |
Yep /sbin/modules-update is there
Perhaps I will try Bloke2k's Suggestion, comment out all modules and load em one at a time
unless anyone has a better idea ?
Thanks |
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herring
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| Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| scotte wrote: | | Looks like I'm just missing the symbolic link between the two, based on what I see in /var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.5.8/image/sbin/... |
Strange, did'nt know there was two of them.
Anyhow, you'll have to give the correct path to one of them.
If you don't have /sbin/modules-update there is no wonder you get this error.
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bash-2.05b# whereis modules-update
modules-update: /sbin/modules-update /usr/man/man8/modules-update.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/modules-update.8.gz
bash-2.05b# whereis update-modules
update-modules: /sbin/update-modules /usr/sbin/update-modules
bash-2.05b# ls -lag /sbin/modules-update
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2532 Jan 23 02:02 /sbin/modules-update
bash-2.05b# ls -lag /sbin/update-modules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 14 Jan 23 02:02 /sbin/update-modules -> modules-update
bash-2.05b# ls -lag /usr/sbin/update-modules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 25 Jan 23 02:02 /usr/sbin/update-modules -> ../../sbin/modules-update
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Yeah, you're right. True file is /sbin/modules-update, but there are 2 symlinks to it called
/sbin/update-modules and
/usr/sbin/update-modules |
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Yeric
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:40 am Post subject: |
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Well this sure beats me
I can do either update-modules or modules-update without errors
BTW
# out modules did not fix problem
any other ideas ? |
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Yeric
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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Still getting this error 
It is when it gets to calculating dependencies bit
then says failed to calculate dependencies
this is on the initialisation bit
anyone else got any ideas on this one ?
will re-emergging portage solve this ?
TIA |
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Yeric
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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Ok I just spotted another error at start of init
/sbin/rc command egrep not found
could this cause me problems ?
I did a whereis and egrep is in /usr/bin/egrep
I can not remeber how to make apath to this, can someone be kind enough to remind me
I think it is something like
export PATH="usr/bin/egrep":bin
something like that |
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