Gentoo kernel prob: Failed to Calculate modules dependencies

[CaptainPinko]

first of all from all the threads i've read it seems like Gentoo install problems you should be its own forum on it's own...just a thought. onto my problem...

while booting up i get this message

* Doing Something or Another ...... [ ok ]
* Calculating module dependencies....
!! Failed to calculate module dependencies

then later during the system daemon inits (like sshd and eth0 up and what not) i get a message like:

modprobe: modprobe:invalid line <1> in /etc/modules.conf
<3> smb_catch_keepalive

<yes it does say modprboe twice like that>

i also get that error when i run modprobe no arguments. also (since i believe this is some how related) my reiserfs and ext2 partitions mount
with no problem but my ntfs partitions don't load at all (yes i did <M> NTFS file system support (read only) ) also i can't mount mount my cdrom besause iso9660 can't be found (which i also compiled as a module).

i'm not sure if fs need to be compiled into the kernel directly (b/c my reiserfs is) but if they weren't 1) why would it let you compile them as modules and 2) its kinda dodgy consider that boot message and all

now i'm not sure if this is associated in anyway or not when the

now while searching i saw this login: prompt appears if i start typing nothinf shows... ever, no matter how long i wat (which has been like upto 5 minutes) but if i don't press a keyand just wait 2 minutes to login then i have no problems.... erg well not quiet.

i'm using 2.4.21-vanilla sources (since i wanna play with Mosix (http://www.mosix.org) eventually) on a pentium 4 that is set as such under "Processor types and features --->"

and i doubt this is relevant but i started with a stage 3 tarball from 1.4-release (but i've already run emerge -u system. i have previously compiled the kernel and to make the news ones i just repeated the previous (so if there was some extr clean up work involved then i didn't do it) nor did i customize my kernel is any way (eg. apply patches or modules.autoload or anything). i know very little abuot kernels so its hard to make a good post let me know if i couldimprove this in anyway

[Hayl]

is /usr/src/linux a symlink to your kernel sources?

when you installed the kernel did you do make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install

does the directory /lib/modules/<whatever your kernel is> exist?

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by CaptainPinko
first of all from all the threads i've read it seems like Gentoo install problems you should be its own forum on it's own...just a thought. onto my problem...


Then everyone would expect a forum specifically for their own disto. The main forum page would be quite long, wouldn't it.

Besides doesn't Gentoo already have forums for their distro? Just a thought. :)

[nextbillgates]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Besides doesn't Gentoo already have forums for their distro? Just a thought. :)

Indeed they do :)

Gentoo Forums (http://forums.gentoo.org)

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by nextbillgates
Indeed they do :)

Gentoo Forums (http://forums.gentoo.org)

I knew that.

Just wanted to see if CaptainPinko did also. :)

[CaptainPinko]

if (CaptainPinko.iq () < -500) {System.out.println ("d'oh!");}


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d'oh!




brain fart indeed, my humblest apologies gentlepersons. if i find anythig i'll post it here for the next dolt <blush> who doesn't

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by CaptainPinko

brain fart indeed, my humblest apologies gentlepersons. if i find anythig i'll post it here for the next dolt <blush> who doesn't

We didn't mean you couldn't post your Gentoo questions here (as long as someone knows the answer), but were only commenting on your request for a Gentoo specific forum as *cough* Gentoo already provides. :)

[CaptainPinko]

while searching the gentoo foums i saw the command "modules-update" (or something similar, find it using tab complete). i ran it got the message that my f/etc/modules.conf was not automatically generated (what that means i have no idea as i sure as hell didn't do it by hand since i know **** about kernels) so it said that i would have to use the "force" flag so i ran "modules-update force" and it rebuilt the /etc/modules.conf i assume, i rebooted and it works... better at least, no i just get the error that it can't find my iso9660-nls module so i recompiled with it compiled into the kernel... no dice. *sigh* well i saw lots of post with "failing to calculate dependencies" on the gentoo forum so hopefully this thread will help someone in the future