Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than modules.dep ???

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> hi,
> I keep getting the following error message at boot time:
> 
> modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep
> 
> On other occasions it is insmod that issues the message. I have had this problem since kernel 2.2.17. I am presently running kernel 2.4.5 compiled by myself 
> using the debian kernel package tools (make-kpkg). I have also tried things 
> like depmod -A . 

Try it again, with "depmod -a" and see if that changes it for the better.

Did you use update-modules to generate /etc/modules.conf from all the files
under /etc/modultils/ ?

> Any ideas what may be going wrong. Note - if I touch modules.dep to make it more
> recent . On the next boot something reverses the situation again .

That sounds weird.  I don't understand it either, nor seen it before.

Cheers,


Joost