Bug 43335 – modules-update won't work when user booted from the liveCD kernel

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Matt Hargett 2004-02-29 18:02:16 UTC]

Code Listing 48 shows to run 'modules-update'. This will result in an error message "couldn't write to /etc/modules.conf" (or something similar) when in a session booted from the LiveCD kernel. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Follow the install instructions in the handbook for an AMD64 system with the gentoo-dev-2.6.3-r2 kernel.
Actual Results:  
Code Listing 48 shows to run 'modules-update'. This will result in an error message 
"couldn't write to /etc/modules.conf" (or something similar) when in a session booted 
from the LiveCD kernel. This makes sense, but the handbook mentions nothing of 
this. 

Expected Results:  
Before updating the modules, the user should be made to reboot, run 
modules-update (and maybe other things), and reboot again. Things should then 
work properly. 

Being a new user to gentoo (but a linux user on and off since 1996), this really 
threw me. People on the IRC channel were confused as well, so it would be great to 
fix this so other new users don't get frustrated.

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-03-02 04:09:24 UTC]

Could someone of the amd-team check why modules-update wouldn't allow writing to /etc/modules.conf? The only reason I can give here is that someone forgot to chroot (and even then would writing to /etc/modules.conf work as its a ramdisk, not a readonly filesystem).

[Comment 2 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) 2004-03-21 11:07:34 UTC]

I just performed a stage1 install last week and didn't experience this issue...

[Comment 3 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) 2004-03-31 13:32:02 UTC]

Can't duplicate this issue.