Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 163913
Update to 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3-x86_64 kernel missing modules 'build' directory
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:10 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: An automated update (thanks to yum) happened, but when I looked at: [root@media ~]# ls -ld /lib/modules/*/build drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jul 11 19:54 /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.35_FC3/build lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Jul 20 16:35 /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/build -> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3-x86_64 [root@media ~]# it seems that "build" directory in 2.6.12-1.1372 wasn't bundled correctly (as if a copy was done with -d). This causes various things to fail, including rebuilding the NVidia binary drivers' kernel interface. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.12-1.1372 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update kernel on FC3 to 2.6.12-1.1372. 2. 3. Actual Results: The update succeeded, but the contents of /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/build are missing (the symlink points to a non-existent directory tree). Expected Results: The "build" directory should have been an actual directory (instead of a symlink) and had the appropriate contents. Additional info:
This is not a bug. For building external modules that are not part of the stock kernel please install the properly named/numbered kernel-devel package for your current kernel. The information on how to do this in the release notes is erroneous and it will be taken care of.