From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Subject: kernel update fiasco (depmod) Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:12:01 +0100 Message-ID: <43ABBF61.5080708@arrakis.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Good morning, I have just installed Slackware-10.2 with kernel 2.4.31 on a Pentium 100 with 32Mb ram. All packets are from the 1st iso, which I downloaded and burned on cd. The problems start when I try to upgrade the kernel using the Slackware packet kernel-generic-2.6.13 and the corresponding kernel-modules. The 3 symlinks in /boot all point to the right files. lilo.conf is set up correctly. I've run lilo -v repeatedly. But the system will not boot correctly as the files in /lib/modules/2.6.13 (modules.dep, etc.) are not being created. (However, I can boot the system from a floppy with the 2.4.31 kernel). If I try running depmod after booting with the 2.6.13 I just get the message Killed, and the following lines appear in var/log/messages: Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: Mem-info: Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: Free swap: 0kB Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 8192 pages of RAM Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 0 pages of HIGHMEM Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 924 reserved pages Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 16 pages shared Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 0 pages swap cached Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 5 pages dirty Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 1 pages writeback Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 6298 pages mapped Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 618 pages slab Dec 23 10:47:45 fw kernel: 55 pages pagetables (The figures vary) I have tried redownloading and reinstalling the kernel, kernel-modules and module-init-tools tgzs. No difference. I replaced the hd (it was giving intermittent error messages) and reinstalled. No difference. Now what? TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs