Re: Modules_install error
Tried with linux-2.4.30.tar.gz...again the same error.
Still i do not have any clue why depmod is searching
in /opt!!
I will now copy the kernel from other machine to this
one(also /lib/modules/<version> and initrd)
Regards;
Rituraj
--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:07, RituRaj wrote:
> >Thanks a lot Gene for help.
> >
> >I did it all over again and ran make oldconfig this
> >time. Still i am getting errors.(fewer now )
> >
> >make[1]: Entering directory
> >`/usr/src/linux-2.4.29/arch/i386/lib'
> >make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
> >make[1]: Leaving directory
> >`/usr/src/linux-2.4.29/arch/i386/lib'
> >cd /lib/modules/2.4.29; \
> >mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> >find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs
> -i
> >-r ln -sf ../{}
> >pcmcia
> >if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F
> >System.map 2.4.29; fi
> >depmod: /opt/Xilinx6.3/bin/lin/wdreg is not an ELF
> >file
> >depmod: /opt/Xilinx6.3/bin/lin/install_drv is not
> an
> >ELF file
> >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> >/lib/modules/misc/windrvr6.o
> >depmod: usb_ifnum_to_if_Rsmp_7f504340
> >depmod: usb_alloc_urb_Rsmp_37eb1efb
> >depmod: usb_register_Rsmp_6ab484a9
> >depmod: usb_set_interface_Rsmp_fc4b0efa
> >depmod: usb_clear_halt_Rsmp_3b248300
> >depmod: usb_deregister_Rsmp_a38a432d
> >depmod: usb_submit_urb_Rsmp_87e0f069
> >depmod: usb_free_urb_Rsmp_986294e5
> >depmod: usb_unlink_urb_Rsmp_1a73da9d
> >make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1
>
> Whatintuncket is windrvr6.o? That doesn't sound as
> if it should be
> apart of the 2.4.29 build that I've heard about.
>
> >I think i will try downloading tar.gz again(i had
> bz2)
> >and maybe i should try the latest 2.4.30 instead of
> >2.4.29.
>
> I've had the .bz2's byte me from defective unpacks a
> couple of times,
> so I settled on grabbing the .gz file if it was
> available. As for
> 2.4.30, dunno, but 2.4.29 is running very happily on
> my old RH7.3
> firewall box. I just updated it from
> 2.4.18-something-or-other a
> month back, ruined a nearly 2 year uptime (I have a
> BIG ups :)
>
> >Thanks anyways.
> >Rituraj
> >
> >--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 06 April 2005 08:07, RituRaj wrote:
> >> >Hi all;
> >> >
> >> >I am compiling 2.4.29 on redhat 9( i am sorry
> for
> >> >asking the question here). I am simply copying
> the
> >> >config file of 2.4.20-8(redhat default) as
> .config
> >>
> >> in
> >>
> >> >my source dir of 2.4.29.
> >>
> >> Did you, after copying those .configs in, do a
> 'make
> >> oldconfig'?
> >>
> >> This is a utility built into the Makefile that
> >> allows the differences
> >> in how things are done to be incorporated into a
> >> newer .config. It
> >> may ask you some questions in order to do that.
> >>
> >> >The compilation has been successful on 2
> machines.
> >>
> >> I'm amazed that it worked at all.
> >>
> >> >However on one machine it gives error in "make
> >> >modules_install"
> >> >
> >> >depmod: /opt/Xilinx6.3/bin/lin/wdreg is not an
> ELF
> >> >file
> >> >depmod: /opt/Xilinx6.3/bin/lin/install_drv is
> not
> >>
> >> an
> >>
> >> >ELF file
> >> >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> >>
> >/lib/modules/2.4.29custom1/kernel/crypto/autoload.o
> >> >depmod: crypto_alg_lookup
> >> >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> >> >/lib/modules/2.4.29custom1/kernel/crypto/proc.o
> >> >depmod: crypto_alg_sem
> >> >depmod: crypto_alg_list
> >> >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> >> >/lib/modules/misc/windrvr6.o
> >> >depmod: usb_ifnum_to_if_Rsmp_7f504340
> >> >depmod: usb_alloc_urb_Rsmp_37eb1efb
> >> >depmod: usb_register_Rsmp_6ab484a9
> >> >depmod: usb_set_interface_Rsmp_fc4b0efa
> >> >depmod: usb_clear_halt_Rsmp_3b248300
> >> >depmod: usb_deregister_Rsmp_a38a432d
> >> >depmod: usb_submit_urb_Rsmp_87e0f069
> >> >depmod: usb_free_urb_Rsmp_986294e5
> >> >depmod: usb_unlink_urb_Rsmp_1a73da9d
> >> >make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >It seems that modules_install runs depmod but
> fails
> >> >for some reason. The modules dependency is not
> the
> >> >issue as the compilation has been successful
> with
> >>
> >> same
> >>
> >> >default redhat kernel config file (being copied
> as
> >> >.config) on other 2 machines.
> >> >Why is depmod looking in /opt? My modules.conf
> file
> >> >does not have any path directive.
> >> >I have googled but only found a few open ended
> >> >questions. Any pointers please?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks and Regards;
> >> >Rituraj
> >>
> >> Somethings fubar someplace. Start it over again
> >> from scratch.
> >>
> >> I also maintain continuity of .config's by
> copying,
> >> but you _must_,
> >> after the copying, do a 'make oldconfig' and
> answer
> >> its questions.
> >> I've never had a problem like that unless a patch
> >> was bad & it
> >> scrolled offscreen un-noticed. I've also had to
> >> download the kernel
> >> archive again a couple of times, but only if
> getting
> >> the .bz2
> >> versions, the .gz have always worked from the
> gitgo.
> >> Its also bad
> >> form to copy those .config's to a different
> machine,
> >> always get it
> >> from the machine you are going to build it on in
> >> order to maintain
> >> the continuity _for that hardware_.
> >>
> >> I do this often enough I've long since relegated
> the
> >> drudgery of a
> >> kernel build to a couple of scripts that I have
> to
> >> edit the variables
> >> of each time I run them, but they then take care
> of
> >> the building and
> >> configuring of a new kernels src tree on my hard
> >> drive, then after
> >> I've fixed the second script to $VER match the
> >> makefile, it gets run
> >> to build and install the kernel, leaving me with
> the
> >> 30 second job of
> >> editing /boot/grub/grub.conf. I can, literally,
> >> download a new
> >> patchset, tweek those two scripts, run them, and
> be
> >> rebooted into a
> >> new kernel in about 25 minutes elapsed time if an
> >> fsck doesn't catch
> >> me up, 8 to 10 of which is the runtime of the
> second
> >> script.
> >>
> >> Everyone who does this "keeping up with the
> Jones's"
> >> should over time,
>
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