FC6's module-init-tools broken?

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Wed May 30 18:24:39 UTC 2007


On 5/30/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I forgot to add:

Subsequent updates to FC6 have created a bug where some drivers no
longer load during the boot process. If you need to reload your
drivers append the modprobe command(s) to /etc/rc.local.




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