Re: depmod: not an ELF file
"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:30:51PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > Why does 'update-modules' give:
> >
> > depmod: not an ELF file?
> >
> > I've done a dist-upgrade but no juice.
>
> I've had this happen when I transferred a module incorrectly. I think I
> transferred it across an ms-dos-mounted floppy instead of vfat. Maybe you had
> a transfer problem?
>
> Try "file <filename>". The modules should say, I believe, 32-bit ELF.
It turns out I had a text file "modules.pcimap" in /lib/modules/current/,
the removal of which solved the problem.
cheers,
chris
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