On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:22:54AM -0500, DvB wrote: > My last apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade modutils and then bombed with > the following message: > > Setting up modutils (2.4.10-3) ... > depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for ieee1394_device_size > It is likely that the kernel structure has changed, if so then > you probably need a new version of modutils to handle this kernel. > Check linux/Documentation/Changes. > dpkg: error processing modutils (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > Setting up bsdgames (2.12-9) ... > > Errors were encountered while processing: > modutils > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > ... or maybe I need a new version of kernel to handle this modutils? :-) > > Does this mean it's expecting me to have upgraded my kernel to 2.4.10? > Is there some compelling reason for me to do so? (I know about the big > VM changes and am not particularly interested for now). > I hadn't planned on upgrading from 2.4.9 until ext3 was included in the > Linus kernel. > the same here.. all i can tell you is that upgrading to kernel-image-2.4.10 doesn't help, cause i did that even before i upgraded the modutils package.. :-( frank.
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