On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 04:30:43PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:47:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > >> Is my netbook dying, or is something else wrong? This is an older > >> 32-bit Atom netbook, with > >> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe > >> -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" > >> and 'MAKEOPTS="-j1"'. Compiling the kernel works OK, but > >> "make modules_install" dies as follows... > > > > I unmasked kernel 3.5.7-r1 (no, I don't run ext4) and tried again. I > > got... > > > > [aa1][root][/usr/src/linux] make modules_install > > INSTALL drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.ko > > INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko > > INSTALL drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko > > DEPMOD 3.5.7-gentoo-r1 > > depmod: /lib/modules/3.5.7-gentoo-r1/modules.builtin is not an ELF file > > depmod: /lib/modules/3.5.7-gentoo-r1/modules.order is not an ELF file > > make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1 > > > > Both of these are textfiles, but there were a few *.bin files in the > > previous kernel build error list. This is a 32-bit machine running gcc > > 4.6.3. My desktop, also running in 32-bit mode with kernel 3.5.7-r1 and > > gcc 4.6.3, has no such problem. Any ideas? > > At some point in the past few months I think module-init-tools was > replaced by another package (kmod perhaps, I'm going from memory)... I > am wondering if it has something to do with that transition. >
<ELVIS>Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Verrrry Verrry Much!</ELVIS> It was actually modutils that was masked out and replaced with modutils. This had not kicked in yet on the install image I was using on the netbook. I had to unmerge virtual/modutils and modutils, then I was able to emerge kmod. Both kernel 3.5.7 and 3.7.10 built and "make modules_install" worked. E.g... [aa1][root][/usr/src/linux] make modules_install INSTALL drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.ko INSTALL drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko DEPMOD 3.7.10-gentoo Thanks again. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
