Bug 62525

Summary:	modutils overwrites module-init-tools
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Samuel Newbold <snewbold>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Samuel Newbold 2004-09-01 09:32:58 UTC

I have recently seen two upgrades to modutils without corresponding upgrades to module-init-tools. These get updated as part of an emerge system. Each time the emerge has overwritten not just the .old versions of the programs, but the module-init-tools ones as well. Since I have only ever used 2.6 kernels on this machine, this means that all uses of modules break.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have mod-init-tools and modutils installed
2. Emerge modutils
3.

Actual Results:  
depmod --version
depmod version 2.4.27
depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented



Expected Results:  
depmod --version
module-init-tools 3.0

The simple workaround is to re-emerge module-init-tools. However, at least for
me it was entirely non-obvious that this was what needed to happen. All I
noticed was that I rebooted (which only happens when I upgrade the kernel) and
suddenly the nvidia driver wasn't working. QM_MODULES errors seemed like they
were resulting from a miscompiled module rather than from a modutils internal
error. As someone fairly new to playing with the kernel it's this big discovery
that module-init-tools is an update on modutils.

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-01 14:43:12 UTC


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