Re: After ftp upgrade of slink, module loading fails
> After allowing an upgrade of slink packages without watching too
> closely, I then discovered that the auto loading of modules
> (ppp,sound,vfat) fails for all modules. I can use insmod to *manually*
> load these modules (in dependency order) and everything works. The
> modules.dep file is correct (depmod -a doesn't help), it has the right
> dependencies and locations. I have done nothing to the kernel; no new
> kernel. I booted up this morning with everything working, connected to
> an ftp site with dselect, allowed it to upgrade about a dozen packages,
> and afterword all module loading is broken. Anybody seen this?
i got hit with this one too, but good, yesterday. I noticed something
going to slink about modules being handled differently, but the message
and the instructions flew by.
Having caught that it had something to do with modules, i reinstalled
modconf & modutils from hamm, and seems to work again.
also, it didn't merely stop at not autoloading, they didn't seem to stay
properly loaded once inserted. in particular, i'd log in, insert the ppp
module, log out, connect and try to start a ppp session, and the "host"
where i was doing this would report to syslog that the kernel didn't
support ppp.
anyway, downgrade the two modules, and it seems to work. For that matter,
putting ppp in /etc/modules still gave me the "not supported" problem.
rick
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