For some reason I've had problems with several different systems putting either YES or y at the end of my modules directory name. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 424 Feb 3 09:36 2.6.10-gentoo-r6YES drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 424 Jan 1 08:30 2.6.9-gentoo-r13YES drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 424 Nov 12 00:53 2.6.9-gentoo-r1YES drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 424 Nov 18 04:24 2.6.9-gentoo-r4YES While this wouldn't be a huge problem, apps that install modules try to look for module dir of /lib/modules/`uname -r` which doesn't exist since it has YES appended. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gentoo-dev-sources 2. configure and make 3. make module_install Actual Results: example: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6YES Expected Results: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r13YES i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r13YES i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 19 2004, 10:14:33)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" USE="x86 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode f77 font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Because you used "make oldconfig" when changing between kernel versions when you should not do this (it should only be done between individiual gentoo _revisions_). Start from a fresh .config and you will not run into this problem.