Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:13:10 +0100 | From | maximilian attems <> | Subject | linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ] |
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Hmmm. I wonder if it is the old m-i-t's modprobe that is the problem when > you do: > modprobe --set-version=2.6.26.3 --ignore-install --show-depends <module> > > Looks like that's it: > # modprobe -V > module-init-tools version 3.4 > # modprobe --set-version=2.6.26.3 --ignore-install --show-depends nfs > WARNING: Could not open 'kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko': No such file or > directory > WARNING: Could not open 'kernel/fs/nfs_common/nfs_acl.ko': No such file or > directory > WARNING: Could not open 'kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko': No such file or > directory > FATAL: Could not open 'kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko': No such file or directory > > # modprobe -V > module-init-tools version 3.7-pre9 > # modprobe --set-version=2.6.26.3 --ignore-install --show-depends nfs > WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/pnp-hotplug, it will > be ignored in a future release. > WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/display_class, it > will be ignored in a future release. > WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will > be ignored in a future release. > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.3/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.3/kernel/fs/nfs_common/nfs_acl.ko > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.3/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.3/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko > > That would mean that m-i-t has created a backwards incompatibility problem > _with itself_ and that the problem actually is "installing a kernel, that > was built on a system with new m-i-t, on a system with old m-i-t". > Or, installing a kernel, built on a system running unstable or testing, on > a system running oldstable or stable. That sucks.
argh indeed.
arguably it is also a bug by initramfs-tools to suppress the error of above modprobe calls see manual_add_modules() in hook-functions: for mam_x in $(modprobe --set-version="${version}" --ignore-install \ --show-depends "${1}" 2>/dev/null | awk '/^insmod/ { print $2 }'); do
git history tells that jbailey added it from the start on, so it must have been because modprobe was/is too chatty. suse mkinitrd seems also only to have lost that suppression lately.
thanks for finding out fjp.
kind regards
-- maks
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