Bug 61854

Summary:	modutils ebuild should be changed, to ensure that users dont run into problem with modules!
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andres Järv <andresjarv>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andres Järv 2004-08-26 13:57:15 UTC

There should be a warning in the modutils ebuild, that if you dont recompile module-init-tools, you will lose the functionality of all modules the next time you reboot. Because some users(including me) really just don't know that i was supposed to do that the first time i upgraded modutils. The result is not working modules, possibly no network connection, and lots of headache. So there should be some warning after the compile!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile new modutils
2. reboot
3. cry out of misery

Comment 1 majx 2004-08-31 11:14:29 UTC

I was really surprised why it did't work ...
after updating to modutils-2.4.27 my  module-init-tools (i.e. modules-update) stopped working:
###########################
# modules-update
depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented
###########################
Had to reemerge them ( module-init-tools), afterwards it worked again.

Would propose to edit the ebuild file to add a "emerge  module-init-tools" or somehow after the compilation of modutils (cause when "emerge world" you won't see the warning msg...and then the prob will appear)
...as a first resolution...

Comment 2 majx 2004-08-31 11:35:16 UTC

a somehow related discussion:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1488485

Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-02 05:17:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33605 ***