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MrBlonde
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 Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 9:44 pm Post subject: Unresolved Symbols - Can't Fix It! |
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I have had Gentoo Linux running just fine for the past month on my laptop. I tried recompiling the kernel yesterday to add usb support, and now I get unresolved symbols on ALL of my modules when I reboot, or when I 'depmod -a'. I have no idea what is wrong. I've recompiled the kernel about 25 times, and nothing fixes it. I have never had any problems like this on any other distro on this laptop (RH, Mandrake, Slack). Can anyone out there help me out? I really like Gentoo, and want to keep using it, but this problem is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I would post the exact output here, but the machine can't load the modules to put it on my network. Thanks in advance.
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Jkay
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When you make a "major" change to your kernel, you need to *first* :
to clean up /usr/src/linux, or you will have proplems such as this. Back up your "menuconfig" config file before you do this, or you will have to redo all the kernel settings by hand, from square one. |
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Jkay
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ALSO .. some modules are not created by the kernel, but by external apps; LM_SENSORS comes to mind .. you can't fix these kinds of modules with a kernel re-compile - you need to re-emerge the app that creates them.
Look at which modules have gone bad, and figure out what "owns" them. |
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alsa-driver, nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx has to be recompiled after a new kernel compile. (Just in case you are using some of them, and didn't know)
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Jkay
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Yes! Alsa too! good point.
Again - look at the modules which are borked, and do a Google search for them, and determine if they are part of an external app, like Alsa, or LM_SENSORS .. and re-emerge the offending external app. |
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GurliGebis
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If you can't find them on google (You can find everything there), post them here, and we might be able to figure out what they belongs to.
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MrBlonde
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I've done 'make mrproper' and rebuilt the kernel. Also, all of the modules that report unresolved symbols are from the linux kernel, not external apps (modules 3c59x, sound, etc.) That's why I'm so confused.
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GurliGebis
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What kernel are you using?
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2.4.19-gentoo-r5
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hmm, try 2.4.19-r10 or maybe even better, 2.4.20-r1 . (Now would be a good reason to upgrade the kernel  )
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when i get those errors i just rm the buggers in /lib/modules/linux-2.4.20-ck3 and rebuild the kernel  Not the best way ofcourse. |
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