Kernel upgrade requires manual "depmod"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Adam Conrad |
Bug Description
After my last three Breezy Badger kernel upgrades, my system has been unable to
enter GDM. This includes the recent 2.6.12-8 that was just released. I am
running with the 686-smp architecture of kernels.
The problem is that the nvidia driver is not being found at startup. The only
way I've been able to fix this is manually running "depmod" from the shell. Once
that is run I can "modprobe nvidia", and restarting GDM. Before running depmod
there seems to be no way I can get the nvidia kernel module loaded.
I'm looking in init.d/
"depmod --quick" at boot. But somehow this is not catching it. Note that I also
have "nvidia" listed in my /etc/modules to force it to load.
I mentioned this during the last kernel upgrade on ubuntu-devel. There was no
real information. Matt Zimmerman asked if it could be a clock skew, but I do not
believe that is the problem.
(In reply to comment #0) module- init-tools now, and seeing the system runs a
> I'm looking in init.d/
> "depmod --quick" at boot. But somehow this is not catching it. Note that I also
> have "nvidia" listed in my /etc/modules to force it to load.
>
> I mentioned this during the last kernel upgrade on ubuntu-devel. There was no
> real information. Matt Zimmerman asked if it could be a clock skew, but I do not
> believe that is the problem.
Why not?
Did you try removing the --quick? That would actually test whether it is a
clock-related problem.