broken links in /lib/modules/`uname -r`

[Paul Howarth]

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> I recently did a "yum update" and it installed a new kernel:
> 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.  I like to build my own ipw2200 module, so I tried and
> it failed.  With a little investigation I found some broken links:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     47 Aug 25 15:45 build
> -> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3-i686
> drwxr-xr-x  9 root root   4096 Aug 25 15:45 kernel
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 194916 Aug 25 15:45 modules.alias
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     69 Aug 25 15:45 modules.ccwmap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 234004 Aug 25 15:45 modules.dep
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    813 Aug 25 15:45 modules.ieee1394map
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    357 Aug 25 15:45 modules.inputmap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  16284 Aug 25 15:45 modules.isapnpmap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 169632 Aug 25 15:45 modules.pcimap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  89255 Aug 25 15:45 modules.symbols
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 268793 Aug 25 15:45 modules.usbmap
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      5 Aug 25 15:45 source -> build
> 
> "build" and "source" are broken links.  I tried installing the .src.rpm and
> did an rpmbuild, but to no avail.  What am I missing?
> 
> This seems to be new for kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.  Before, all the headers
> needed to build modules were included in the rpm, the src rpm wasn't
> needed, nor was anything else.

This one kernel was accidentally built "the FC4 way" with a separate 
kernel-devel package. Install that and the links will work.

Paul.