Found a bug in the RH5.1 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file.
It is exercised when you compile your own kernel and reboot. The
problem is that depmod does not get run due to a typo in this file.
Note that it checks for the existence of the "preferred" symlink, but
then does the same thing regardless. The fix is to change the "else"
statement to a simple
else
depmod -a
fi
Here's the offending snippet:
------------- from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit --------------------------
if [ -x /sbin/depmod -a -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then
# Get ready for kerneld if module support in the kernel
echo -n "Finding module dependencies... "
if [ -f /lib/modules/preferred ]; then
depmod -a preferred
else
depmod -a preferred
fi
echo "done"
fi
------------- from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit --------------------------
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Alec Habig, Boston University Particle Astrophysics Group
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http://hep.bu.edu/~habig/
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