Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

James Miller
2004-06-14T22:44:36Z

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> > This is a wordy way of telling you that you should run depmod. The modutils
> > init script is supposed to do this for you, but it may interact with initrd
> > in funny ways. So to be safe, do this (following the dpkg-reconfigure):
> >
> > 1. Reboot the system.
> > 2. Log in as root and run "depmod -a".
> > 3. Reboot the system.
> >
> > This may not fix your modules problem. But it will fix the problem that
> > this message is warning you about.
>
> Ok. I did that once before but I'll do it again right after I send off
> this email (I've just done depmod -a - no error output - so all that
> remains is to reboot).

Well, I'm sorry to say that running depmod -a after dpkg-reconfigure --all
didn't get those NIC modules auto-loading like they used to (still loading
them by hand using modprobe, though I do realize adding them to
/etc/modules is another solution).

There are some missing parts to this puzzle, and I can't conjecture what
they would be. My assumption is that the kernel modules error message I
got is somehow related - which seems logical. But I suppose the
possibility exists that something else has gone awry with the dist-upgrade
(as, they say, is wont to happen with Sid). I suppose I may have to pose
some queries on a Debian list and find out if others have had such
problems with this kernel, or with recent Sid dist-upgrades. Perhaps
another option would be to apt-get remove the new kernel and apt-get
install it again.

Meantime, the one other thing that differs between the 2.6.5 and 2.6.6
kernels that I've noted is this sit0 thing. I definitely did not see that
before. I don't know how or if it could be related in any way. But, here
is some ifconfig output related to it, in case this may ring any bels for
anyone:

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Puzzled, James