Re: insmod.old/lsmod.old etc probs

From: Adam Aube (aaube01_at_baker.edu)
Date: 09/12/04

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    Piers Kittel wrote:

    > I think it's related to me trying out the 2.6 kernel a while ago and
    > giving up and going back to the 2.4 kernel, I don't remember exactly
    > when it occured, but it was several months ago, but when it happened, I
    > couldn't do any module management, always got complaints that <command
    > name>.old didn't exist - I did the dirty and nasty thing and softlinked
    > <command name>.old to <command name> - not a good idea I know, but it
    > generally works. But occasionally it doesn't work, such as the nvidia
    > driver refusing to insert the module in the kernel (strange as it
    > normally works just fine until now) as it got a warning that insmod.old
    > isn't really insmod.old ("WARNING: insmod.old: I am not the old
    > version!") and I'd like to fix it properly and how do I do that?

    Make sure that:

    1) module-init-tools is removed
    2) modutils is installed

    Adam

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