On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:56:43AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:54:29 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:29:07PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 the mental interface of Sven Luther told: > >> > >> [...] > >> > If you have time to investigate this, it would be really > >> > appreciated. > >> Maybe the attached patch against kernel-package-9.008.4 solves the > >> problem? > > > Mmm, not sure, did you try it ? > > > Manoj, or someone else from the kernel team, what do you think about > > this ? i thought the - in the line only meant errors are ignored or > > something, and furthermore this seems to be in the rules file, not > > the postnst. > > No, the attached patch is spurious. The leading hyphen merely > instructs make to ignore errors -- and depmod is not required to > succeed at install time, since depmod is run again anyway at boot > time. > > What is the underlying problem we are trying to solve?
There are some missing symbols in some modules (usb ones here, but maybe others), and running depmod fixes it, so neither the install-time one is working, nor the boot-time-one. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
