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archbishopgo

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Registered: 2017-06-02

Posts: 7

Recent update broke modprobe and mount, linux (2-1 -> 3-1)

I installed Arch Linux 2 days back, from OpenSUSE.
Anyway, today I ran pacman -Syu and some updates were there along with linux (4.11.2-1 -> 4.11.3.1). I let it update. Then after a while I installed fuse and ntfs-3g. When I tried to mount it this happened. Please help.
P.S. I ran pacman -Syu before posting this. Also I never tried mounting before updating(not wrong title i guess?).

[root@localhost Downloads]# mount /dev/sda2 /media/Windows/
modprobe: FATAL: Module fuse not found in directory /lib/modules/4.11.2-1-ARCH
fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first
[root@localhost Downloads]# modprobe fuse
modprobe: FATAL: Module fuse not found in directory /lib/modules/4.11.2-1-ARCH
[root@localhost Downloads]# cd /lib/modules
[root@localhost modules]# ls
4.11.3-1-ARCH  extramodules-4.11-ARCH

Last edited by archbishopgo (2017-06-02 11:22:52)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: Recent update broke modprobe and mount, linux (2-1 -> 3-1)

Reboot your system after a kernel update, your modules folder isn't the same as the running kernel, so when the kernel attempts to load a module it hasn't seen yet, it will try to look in its module folder which won't be existing anymore. The output of

pacman -Q linux
uname -r

should have matching version numbers.
And while you are at it https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … e_hostname set your hostname correctly, it should not be localhost, that can and will lead to issues.