modinfo cifs and uname -a match On 3 February 2017 at 09:43, Mantas Mikulėnas <graw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Isla Finney <dr.isla.fin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have a number of cifs mount points from linux to a NAS server. >> After using apt-get dist-upgrade, I get Load Kernel Modules failed on >> start up >> The cifs-utils module is installed but does not seem to be recognised and >> I can no longer see the mount points. >> >> I've tried rebooting, purging (dpkg -P) and re-installing cifs-utils >> (apt-get install), and editing the grub file then updating grub and >> rebooting (it didn't change to the older kernel) and have run out of ideas >> so any help appreciated. >> > > First, this has nothing to do with systemd. The service you found is only > used to trigger manual loading of modules that didn't get loaded > automatically – but that doesn't mean systemd is actually doing all the > loading. > > That's initiated by kmod (e.g. using `modprobe cifs`) and done by the > kernel on its own, so "unknown symbol" in dmesg has nothing to do with > systemd. You're probably trying to load the wrong module version; compare > `modinfo cifs` with `uname -a`. > > Second, both "fuse" and "cifs-utils" packages only contain the *userspace > tools* – the actual kernel modules are part of the kernel package itself, > as you can see from `dpkg -S <path_from_modinfo>`. > > -- > Mantas Mikulėnas <graw...@gmail.com> >
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