Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-25 Thread Marcel Kolaja
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:06:08AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Also, once the system reboots, depmod is ran too; at that time, it > provokes no errors, and the system works perfectly afterwards -- yes, I > tried :-) Yes, this is true, but if you use initrd (which I use) and the modules.dep is

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di 22-04-2003, om 23:38 schreef Herbert Xu: > Marcel Kolaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> are only warnings, the generated modules.dep still works. > > > > Are you sure? How can depmod generate correct modules.dep if it does not > > understand the System.map file? If the modules.dep file

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
Marcel Kolaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> are only warnings, the generated modules.dep still works. > > Are you sure? How can depmod generate correct modules.dep if it does not > understand the System.map file? If the modules.dep file is really correct, The dependencies describe relationship

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-22 Thread Marcel Kolaja
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:37:24AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Marcel Kolaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, it looks like a dependency problem in Debian. What do you exactly > > mean with "recent binutils"? This problem appears on Woody, that means > > with binutils 2.12.90.0.1-4 and mod

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Marcel Kolaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, it looks like a dependency problem in Debian. What do you exactly > mean with "recent binutils"? This problem appears on Woody, that means > with binutils 2.12.90.0.1-4 and modutils 2.4.15-1. Then this is not the problem. Only the binutils from

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 09:54:53 +1000, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >modutils >= 2.4.17 is not available for woody. You >have two options: 2.4.15 for stable or 2.4.21 for unstable. > >This means you would have to recompile 2.4.21. > >Recompiling is easy, I have a version at >http://www.microc

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-19 Thread Brian May
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 08:34:06PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > binutils was changed around July 15 2002. Unfortunately the binutils > Changelog does not mention the change, nor does it say which releases > of binutils were issued around that time. Does upgrading to modutils > >= 2.4.17 fix your p

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:07:11 +0200, Marcel Kolaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To debian-devel: Because it is a long time, we have been discussing this >bug here, and the thread is broken, I remark, we are talking about >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200302/msg00349.html. >

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-19 Thread Marcel Kolaja
To debian-devel: Because it is a long time, we have been discussing this bug here, and the thread is broken, I remark, we are talking about http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200302/msg00349.html. Please, let's return to the problem and let's try to solve it. On Fri, Apr 11, 20

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-10 Thread Keith Owens
When using a recent binutils, you need modutils >= 2.4.17. The binutils team changed the output of the 'nm' command which changed the contents of System.map.