Re: [2.6.5-bk] 'modules_install' failed to install modules

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 11:45:40 EST


On Wednesday 14 April 2004 12:18, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:40:47AM -0700, walt wrote:
>> I pulled the latest changesets just now and found this weird
>> behavior:
>>
>> 'make' and 'make install' worked as expected, but 'make
>> modules_install' just deleted all the old modules, ran depmod, and
>> then installed no new modules -- nothing.
>>
>> I finally found that doing another 'make' fixed whatever the
>> problem was and allowed modules_install to work properly the
>> second time.
>>
>> This happened on two different machines, so I'm fairly sure it
>> wasn't just me having a brainfart.
>
>This is my second report about this.
>But you gave some new info "work properly the second time".
>This was not the case for the other person.
>
>I will look into it tonight.
>
> Sam

WRT 2.6.5-bk1: So far everything I've checked seems to be working,
including loading all the modules on the 1st build and reboot to it.

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