On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:37:06PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > About a week ago I updated a Debian box, running a custom kernel > 2.4.16, with a dist-upgrade in unstable (it's been running unstable > for a long time, and this just brought it up to date). > > On the next reboot (a few days later) things started breaking! In > particular nfs, audio, and cdrom and cdrw access. I think I've > tracked the problems to the appropriate kernel modules not being > loaded? Why would a dist-upgrade cause this? I can add nfs, and nfsd > to /etc/modules and NFS is working again. I can add i810_audio and > audio is up agian. Also isofs, ide-cd, ide-probe-disk, and ide-disk > get CDROM going again. I've failed so far to get the CD-RW working > again: A couple of times this has happened to me. Both times the problem was between the keyboard and the seat. Both times I had manually loaded modules, didn't update /etc/modules or files in /etc/modutils, forgot about it and then rebooted. A few other possibilities: If you updated modutils, you may have inadvertently replaced configuration files in /etc/modutils. Since you are using ide-scsi, you may need to load sr-mod. Your cdrw may now be on /dev/sr0. If you have mounted devfs on /dev, you need to have sr-mod loaded, and your cdrw will now be found on /dev/cdrom. Hope this helps. > > # mount /cdrw > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device > > My questions: > > What could have changed to the modules stuff to cause these to no > longer be loaded on boot? > > Any ideas on why my ide-scsi CD-RW set up would be failing. A > scanbus does not find the ide-scsi CD-RW. > > Thanks > Graham -- Jerome
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