Re: [2.6.5-bk] 'modules_install' failed to install modules

[simon@himi.org (Simon Fowler)]

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 06:00:10PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 06:18:27PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>  > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:40:47AM -0700, walt wrote:
>  > > I pulled the latest changesets just now and found this weird behavior:
>  > > 
>  > > 'make' and 'make install' worked as expected, but 'make modules_install'
>  > > just deleted all the old modules, ran depmod, and then installed no new
>  > > modules -- nothing.
>  > > 
>  > > I finally found that doing another 'make' fixed whatever the problem
>  > > was and allowed modules_install to work properly the second time.
>  > > 
>  > > This happened on two different machines, so I'm fairly sure it wasn't
>  > > just me having a brainfart.
>  > 
>  > This is my second report about this.
>  > But you gave some new info "work properly the second time".
>  > This was not the case for the other person.
> 
> Make this the third.  I just saw it happen here too.
> 'make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install' fails in the above way.
> Doing a 'make' seems to work.
> 
I've seen the same problem doing 'make; make install
modules_install'. I haven't tried doing make again before
modules_install - I'll do that when I have time.

Simon

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