Bug 20751

Summary:	kernel problems
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Taavi Tuisk <david>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Alan Cox <alan>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Taavi Tuisk 2000-11-13 12:37:23 UTC

Hi all

This helpcry is about compiling 2.4.0-testx kernels on 7.0 systems.
I'm using kgcc as noted, compiling goes fine... etc, but things are still
nasty.
Module depencies just don't work... it was ok with 6.2 systems.
What am i doing wrong, can you give me a clue? some documentation?
Or some cluestick beating, if im doing something very obivous things 
wrong.

depmod -a outputs:
[root@dwarf /root]# depmod -a
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/block/rd.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/char/drm/mga.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.o

and so on...

inserting a module:
[root@dwarf sound]# modprobe es1371
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol kmalloc
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol unregister_chrdev
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol register_chrdev
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol vfree
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol try_inc_mod_count
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol sys_close
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol request_module
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol kfree
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol sprintf
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol __vmalloc
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: unresolved
symbol printk
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o
failed            

and so on...

i can post more information, if needed.
Please help, modules just don't work :(
david

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2000-11-26 11:48:46 UTC

7.0 certainly can build valid 2.4test kernels. As to what is going on - the dump
you give looks like you have MODVERSIONS mangled somehow. Save your .config; do
a make mrproper; put it back
make oldconfig and try that

Comment 2 Taavi Tuisk 2000-11-26 12:58:06 UTC

Well, it seems to be resolved now, i used make install instead make bzlilo now,
and everything works ... thnx. But i think, more documentation would help.. i 
could volunteer, if needed.