missing modules.dep file

[Gene Collins]

Hi Chuck.  Just run depmod -a as root after you get booted up.

Gene

>I hope someone may have a suggestuib about my most recent problem... a
>missing modules.dep file. I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.16 to 2.2.17
>and have done all the usual things - applied the speakup patches, done a
>make config, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install,
>and make install. I have a /lib/modules/2.2.17 directory as well as a
>/lib/modules/2.2.16 and the new modules were moved to the new directory
>okay. Lilo is on the MBR and is updated by make install.
>
>When I reboot, the kernel starts talking and in fact it is 2.2.17 - so far
>so good - but then a little frather along I hear something about a
>"runaway modprobe" a couple of times, followed by an unending series of
>error messages like this:
>modprobe unable to locate module dependencies file
>/lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep
>no such file or directory
>
>This goes on indefinitely until I finally have to press the front panel
>reset button. Rebooting into 2.2.16, I notice that the 2.2.16 modules
>directory does have a file called modules.dep, but sure enough, the 2.2.17
>modules directory does not. 
>
>This is a Slackware 7.1 distribution. The 2.2.16 kernel (which works) was
>recompiuled too, usi;ng the same steps. I tried two ways of putting
>speakup into the 2.2.17 kernel: one was with cvs, and the other the more
>traditional patching method. Both ended in the same runaway modprobe and
>missing modules.dep file.
>
>One suggestion I read said in effect if I am having trouble with modules,
>avoid them! But there must be a simple explanation for what is happening
>here. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
>
>Puzzled - Chuck
>
>
>My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
>Some peoples mouths work faster than their brains.
>They say things they haven't even thought of yet.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup