Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 11516
modules not loading after upgrade from 6.0
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:55 EDT
I upgraded from 6.0 to 6.2 tonight and upon rebooting I was unable to get a ppp connection. In /var/log/messages I saw complaints about ppp not being part of the kernel. I thought this odd since all I did was upgrade all installed packages without changing anything else during the upgrade process. output from /sbin/lsmod returns nothing. /sbin/modprobe ppp confirms that ppp is not installed. I did notice that there is two module directories under /lib/modules: 2.2.12-20 and 2.2.14-5.0. 2.2.12-20 is *empty* except for a file modules.dep. 2.2.14-5.0 has directories beneath it containing .o files which, I'm guessing are the module files. I tried to "trick" the system into using the modules in the 2.2.14-5.0 directory by moving 2.2.12-20 to 2.2.12-20.orig and making a sym link from 2.2.12-20 to 2.2.14-5.0. That failed miserably with a lot of "unresolved symbol" errors at startup. How can I fix the problems caused by the installer during the upgrade? I think the installer has a bug because I really didn't do anything out of the ordinary during the upgrade and now my system is unusable (I rely on dialup access). Thanks in advance for your assistance. -Bill Kuhn
I believe the installer upgraded your kernel from 2.2.12-20 to 2.2.14-5.0. The updated kernel hasn't maybe got PPP support. Try compiling a new kernel, this process begins by running make config in /usr/src/linux. ***TIP: You can use xconfig or menuconfig instead of config!***
The 6.2 kernel does contain the ppp module. Perhaps you made some custom changes to your kernel and some of the links are confused. Could you give me the output of the commands 'uname -a' and 'ls -l /lib/modules'?
Please reopen this bug if you continue to have problems.