This is the proper list, I'm forwarding. Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? > Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? > > > > Earlier I reported a problem with installing potato (from scratch) > and getting errors at boot time like: > > kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped > > and many occurrences of: > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies files /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep >(No such file or directory) > > (Note that those errors were from booting the installation boot > diskettes (rescue.bin/root.bit). Specifically, it was from > before I had a chance to make any choices or affect anything.) > > > > > I thought I'd try getting to potato by upgrading (a clone of) my > slink system. The upgrade went pretty well (well, I accidentally > upgraded the original instead of the clone, but the clone seems > to be working fine) until I installed the 2.2.17 kernel and rebooted. > Those boot-time errors returned. > > I also started getting a bunch of other errors, such as: > > - "modprobe: Can't locate module xxx" > (at bootup; for roughly half of the modules) > > - "start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported" > (asynchonously, after something had triggered diald) > > - "Use of setserial/setrocket to set SPD_* flags is deprecated" > (asynchonously) > > - something like "xmit when interface down" > (asynchonously) > > - (I can't even ping the other end of my diald's PPP connection > (I used the numeric IP address logged by pppd when it > connected).) > > > > Are there any known hardware dependencies that could affect this > (especially when just booted of the installation diskettes)? > > Here's what I can think of regarding mysystem: > > - Gigabyte GX-5AX revision 3.0 motherboard > - AMD K6-2 300MHz > - 128MB DRAM > - dual IDE controller, UDMA/33 > - IDE disks on hda, hdc > - IDE CD-ROM on hdd > - Diamond Viper V330 > - TekRam DC390-F SCSI card (for tape drive; no disks attached) > - SoundBlaster 16 (?; version that causes "missing second channel" message in > 2.0.38/slink ) > - USB ports (not used) > - standard floppy > - no network card (I use ppp via diald) > - no ZIP drive > - nothing special or weird that I can think of > > - works fine under my Slink system > > > Can anyone help me with this? I've been trying to upgrade > to potato for over a week. > > > Thanks, > Daniel > -- > Daniel Barclay > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy > http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi ) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- GNU GPL: "The source will be with you... always." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
