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Bug 46470 - update-modules does nothing and give me this message :"MODPROBE: Can't create modprobe.conf"
Summary: update-modules does nothing and give me this message :"MODPROBE: Can't create...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High major (vote)
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Reported: 2004-04-01 04:31 UTC by Daniel Artamendi
Modified: 2004-04-01 10:24 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Artamendi 2004-04-01 04:31:07 UTC 
I installed a 2.6.0 kernel downloaded from the linux kernel repository and , I installed module-init-tools-9.14. I compiled the kernel, installed, installed the modules. And then i see the error message.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install 2.6.0 kernel, and compile it.
2. make modules modules_install
3. update-modules

Actual Results:  
I see the following error message:
MODPROBE: Can't create modprobe.conf!
Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-01 10:24:45 UTC 
2.6.0 is quite old.  Please do not use it.  Get a much newer version (like 2.6.4)

Also, module-init-tools has a newer version.

And make sure you are root when you run update-modules.

If after doing all of the above, you still have this same issue, please reopen this bug.