Re: Quick (actually rather long) Question on Modules in Devel. Kernels

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:02:35 -0400


Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:50:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: Linux-Kernel Archives <kernel@damacus.dyn.ml.org>

I've been able to sucessfully install all kernels previosly (stable 2.0
kernels, that is) - modules, kernel, and all. With these new kernels, I
continuosly get interesting errors when booting. Everything built INTO
the kernel works like a charm, or so it seems....

here's a clip of some errors I get upon boot:

[..]
Updating module dependencies for Linux 2.1.96:
*** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.1.96/fs/binfmt_java.o

Did you install modutils 2.1.85 before you started trying to build a new
kernel? If not, build and install modutils, then do a "make clean; rm
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/*; make depend; make zImage; make
modules" to rebuild Linux 2.1.96. This should hopefully help.

- Ted

P.S. "make clean" really ought to remove the .ver files in
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/*. Right now, there are certain
circumstances (most notably when you forget to comment out "SMP = 1" in
the top-level Makefile) where you need to remember to manually remove
the .ver files or you'll get into trouble later. I'm really looking
forward to having mec's SMP patch make it into the kernel!

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