FC6's module-init-tools broken?

[Kam Leo]

On 5/30/07, Isamar Maia <isamar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/5/31, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com>:
> > On 5/30/07, Isamar Maia <isamar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am running FC6 with kernel 2.6.8-1.2798.fc6
> >
> > Is that a typo? FC6 was released with kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.
>
> sorry. I meant 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.
> I got that from a "theorically" official DVD that I got from a local book store.
> You can easily find references here:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=ja&q=2.6.18-1.2798.fc6&btnG=%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2&lr=
>
>
> >
> > > Everytime I run "modprobe" to load any driver, the file modules.dep is reset.
> > > So, everytime I need to rerun "depmod -a" to rebuild it.
> > >
> > > Anyone knows how to solve that?
> > > Didn't find any update for module-init-tools
> >
> > Did you do a "yum update"? Do you have the update repository enabled?
> >
> Yes. But no update available. My module-init-tools version is 3.3-0.pre1.4.17

That is the latest version of module-init-tools.

> If you need, I can send a strace of modprobe sending "modules.dep" to
> the hell...
>
> Any thoughts?

Unless you have hardware/system issues you should not be using a
pre-release kernel. Update your kernel.

> Isamar