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nxn

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Registered: 2008-09-01

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System is looking in the wrong place for modules.[SOLVED]

I did a pretty big system update last night that ended up breaking a pretty big portion of everything. No usb, network interfaces, trackpad, etc. Checking logs the biggest issue is clearly this:

modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.26-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory

And yeah, that directory doesn't exist, there is a 2.6.27-ARCH in there though, but the system is using the 2.6.26 kernel, and 2.6.27 is not in /boot

Ideas?

Last edited by nxn (2008-11-11 06:25:40)

joeda

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: System is looking in the wrong place for modules.[SOLVED]

Code:

modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.26-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory

And yeah, that directory doesn't exist, there is a 2.6.27-ARCH in there though, but the system is using the 2.6.26 kernel, and 2.6.27 is not in /boot

Hmm... modprobe manpage says that you can override the kernel version found by uname. You have to use

modprobe --set-version 2.6.27-ARCH yourmodule

for modprobe to look up the file in the right directory. HTH

joe

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: System is looking in the wrong place for modules.[SOLVED]

Are you sure you didn't update to the 2.6.27 kernels part of your update?  My guess is a reboot to start using the updated kernel and all will be fine...

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nxn

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Re: System is looking in the wrong place for modules.[SOLVED]

Yes I updated to 2.6.27, but the problem is that it isn't there, /boot only has 2.6.26 yet the modules are for 2.6.27. I tried restarting, in fact that error message comes up when arch is booting. I'll try to rollback and re-update the kernel I guess.

Allan

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Re: System is looking in the wrong place for modules.[SOLVED]

Did it successfully install?  Check the output in /var/log/pacman.log

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nxn

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Re: System is looking in the wrong place for modules.[SOLVED]

Yeah, I reverted back, rebooted, and reinstalled 2.6.27 and everything is fine now. Apparently /boot wasn't mounted during the original upgrade *whistles*. Thanks for the help