Bug 88723 – genkernel ignores "local version" and fails to include modules in initrd.

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88987
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Øyvind Repvik 2005-04-11 07:38:13 UTC]

When using genkernel to create an initrd, it complains about not being able to find modules under /lib/modules/kernelversion/. This also means it fails to include possibly needed modules in the initrd.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run genkernel all --menuconfig
2. set kernel local version 
3. save config and exit

Actual Results:  
After finishing compiling kernel & modules, genkernel tries to find the modules
it is to put in the initrd. It fails, since it only searches
/lib/modules/kernelversion, not /lib/modules/kernelversion-localversion.

Expected Results:  
It should have checked CONFIG_LOCALVERSION, and appended to the kernelversion.

Workaround: Don't use localversion ;)

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-23 19:50:57 UTC]

Any news here? Actually, this is not a cosmetic issue, it

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-23 19:50:57 UTC]

Any news here? Actually, this is not a cosmetic issue, it´s pretty annoying -
when you need to test several configs of the same kernel version, it renders
genkernel pretty much unuseable for this task. 

[Comment 3 Daniel Holth 2005-05-27 20:09:15 UTC]

I concur, this is a horrible bug that should be fixed.

[Comment 4 Daniel Holth 2005-05-28 18:18:41 UTC]

FIXED: see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88987 (patch fixes both bugs)

[Comment 5 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2005-06-15 12:02:42 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88987 ***