On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:04:17PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:04:55PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > > hi, > > > I keep getting the following error message at boot time: > > > > > > modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > > > /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep > > > > > > On other occasions it is insmod that issues the message. I have had this > > > problem since kernel 2.2.17. I am presently running kernel 2.4.5 compiled > > > by myself > > > using the debian kernel package tools (make-kpkg). I have also tried > > > things > > > like depmod -A . > > > > > > Any ideas what may be going wrong. Note - if I touch modules.dep to make > > > it more > > > recent . On the next boot something reverses the situation again . > > > > > > This has not caused any program to fail as yet but it is still a nagging > > > messg. > > > > > > > Could you please post "ls -l" of both - > > /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep > > /etc/modules.conf > > I'd like to take a look at something. > > Thanks, > > kent > > > > Thank you, > modules.dep and modules.conf are attached. > bt >
OK you sent me the info which is - -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 6122 Jun 23 20:31 /etc/modules.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10489 Jun 23 15:32 /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep This confirms what I was thinking. The time-stamp on /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep is changed on boot. You want to change the time-stamp on /etc/modules.conf instead. Set it so the date is behind (or older than) that of /lib/modules/2.4.5/modules.dep That worked for me anyway - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1552 Jun 13 21:41 /lib/modules/2.4.4/modules.dep -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3486 Apr 1 03:00 /etc/modules.conf hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke