[wplug] something wrong with modules on Gentoo system

[Scott F. Kiesling]

Others have had a similar problem, but it resolves fairly easily:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=50863

If that's not exactly the problem, there are some other promising hits
when I searched for kernel+source+modules+unresolved+symbol on the
forums. It seems ALSA came up quite a lot, so that might have soemthing
to do with it.

SFK

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:04, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> I started my initial Gentoo install on April 13.  At that point I had a
> customized kernel that, at boot, loaded modules for 6 different devices /
> functions.  Over the past weeks, I have been adding quite a few packages to
> the system, one of which happened to be new kernel source.
> 
> Today, for the first time since emerging dozens of packages, I tried to
> reboot my system.  It booted with unresolved symbols for all 6 of the
> modules I have called out in /etc/modules.autoload.  If it's not clear, on
> previous boots all of this worked fine.  I searched /lib/modules/(mykernel)
> and all of the modules are GONE.  It appears a good deal f the driver tree
> has been pruned into non-existence.  The date on modules.autoload has not
> changed.
> 
> I went ahead an compiled a kernel with the new source, and have recovered -
> but WTF.  Have any of you Gentoo users ever seen anything like this????
> Sadly, I have no idea at what point this might have happened, but I can tell
> you that it's through no (knowing) intervention on my part.  As far as I
> know, the only package(s) I installed that have anything to do with modules
> was ALSA - but I have not done any of the configuration after the initial
> install (or anything relating to sound), and as far as I can tell it's
> poised for greatness, but not until I take steps to actually install modules
> and bring it up.
> 
> Don
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