Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> > After allowing an upgrade of slink packages without watching too
> > closely, I then discovered that the auto loading of modules
> > (ppp,sound,vfat) fails for all modules. I can use insmod to *manually*
> > load these modules (in dependency order) and everything works. The
> > modules.dep file is correct (depmod -a doesn't help), it has the right
> > dependencies and locations. I have done nothing to the kernel; no new
> > kernel. I booted up this morning with everything working, connected to
> > an ftp site with dselect, allowed it to upgrade about a dozen packages,
> > and afterword all module loading is broken. Anybody seen this?
>
> i got hit with this one too, but good, yesterday. I noticed something
> going to slink about modules being handled differently, but the message
> and the instructions flew by.
>
> Having caught that it had something to do with modules, i reinstalled
> modconf & modutils from hamm, and seems to work again.
>
This did it; I didn't have modconf installed, but downgrading modutils
solved the problem. THANK YOU.
PS: The problem must have something to do with the /etc/modutils/
config files in the slink package. The /etc/modutils/ dir is a recent
development isn't it?
>
> rick
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Ed C.
