Re: [Outreachy kernel] depmod: modules in dependency cycles

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 02:41:41PM +0800, Eva Rachel Retuya wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Eva Rachel Retuya wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After successfully finishing a few patches and rebasing my branch to
> > > obtain the latest updates, I have run into this problem that keeps me
> > > from updating my kernel and therefore won't let me test patch/es I
> > > intend to send.
> > >
> > > A snippet of my "failed" installation can be found here:
> > > http://pastebin.com/8WzV1Ayn
> > >
> > > I'd like to ask for help as to how to resolve this issue. My searches so
> > > far did not yield enough information for me to successfully solve this
> > > on my own. What I am doing lately was to boot to my stable kernel
> > > (3.16.0-38), copy its config to .config as directed from the tutorial. Compile the kernel and install (sudo make modules_install install). The end result are as indicated on the pastebin link. Even booting from my last-known working "latest" kernel (rc5) yields the same result.
> > 
> > I usually use make allyesconfig.  Maybe try that.
> > 
> > julia
> >
> 
> I tried allyesconfig and was able to install the modules fine without the dependency issue popping out. However, I cannot seem to load any module (modprobe/insmod) without it spouting 'directory not found' messages. Before the dependency issue, modprobe works. I also checked the directory that should house the said modules and it looked fine to me.
> 
> Right now I'm retracing my steps, incorporating the advice so far. I will update again after a few hours of my progress whether the new issue still persists.

Can you also reset your tree before your next try. Maybe something has
changed. git reset --hard <tree/branch>

regards
sudip