Re: Disagreement about versions following CVS update

[Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:

>At Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:33:28 -0600,
>Philip Prindeville wrote:
>  
>
>>I did a CVS update yesterday, and a rebuild and tried to reinstall, and
>>I'm seeing:
>>
>>WARNING: Error inserting snd_seq_device 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq-device.ko): 
>>Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>WARNING: Error inserting snd_rawmidi 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/kernel/sound/acore/snd-rawmidi.ko): 
>>Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>WARNING: Error inserting snd_mpu401_uart 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/kernel/sound/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.ko): 
>>Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>WARNING: Error inserting snd_timer 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/kernel/sound/acore/snd-timer.ko): 
>>Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>WARNING: Error inserting snd_timer 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/kernel/sound/acore/snd-timer.ko): 
>>Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>FATAL: Error inserting snd_pcm 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.ko): Unknown 
>>symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>WARNING: Error running install command for snd_pcm
>>WARNING: Error inserting snd_ac97_codec 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko): 
>>Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>FATAL: Error inserting snd_via82xx 
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.ko): 
>>Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>
>>Stupid question:  did a version number get changed somewhere?  And if
>>so, what's the fix?  I did a:
>>
>>% make -C alsa-driver clean
>>
>>and a rebuild, but I'm still seeing these.  What did I miss?
>>    
>>
>
>After "alsasound stop", unload all remaining snd* modules including
>snd-page-alloc.  "alsasound stop" keeps this module intentionally for
>the buffer management.
>
>Then start alsasound again.
>
>
>Takashi
>  
>

The issue seemed to be that you can only rmmod/insmod the driver
a finite number of times, and then it will start reporting this error
about being the wrong kernel version number.

Rebooting fixed the problem.

-Philip



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