From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 Description of problem: After upgrading to 2.4.18-5, using rpm -Fvh, rebooted from previous correctly operating 2.4.18-3 (base RH Linux 7.3) system. System refused to load tulip device. modprobe tulip indicates desire to access /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/modules.dep (which does not exist after upgrade) All files exist under /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/... and have dates "Jun 10 12:26" or thereabouts. Under /boot, the binary file "map" continues to reference 2.4.18-3, but all other references have been updated to 2.4.18-5. Attempted to repair - built softlink 2.4.18-3 -> 2.4.18-5 under /lib/modules and reperformed modprobe tulip; tulip then claims many missing kernel symbols (e.g., pci_write_config_dword_R57e8add4), followed by insmod failure. A reboot does not fix the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.18-5 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install vanilla redhat7.3 on i586 system with tulip NIC. 2. Install i586 versions of kernel patches to upgrade kernel from 2.4.18-3 to 2.4.18-5 3. reboot Additional info: Two bugs appear to be present. I don't think modprobe should be asking for 2.4.18-3 stuff after the upgrade. The version of tulip provided doesn't appear to match the kernel. I have sources and will try to rebuild.
Reran install and performed upgrade; selected smp kernel. Install updated only the kernel. After reboot, system is again operational and tulip device operational.
Since reporter indicated bug disappeared for him, closing with 'worksforme'.