[arch-general] Kernel Update 3.3.8.1 -> 3.4.2-2 failed

[Nelson Marambio]

Am 15.06.2012 22:20, schrieb David Benfell:
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> On 06/15/12 13:13, Nelson Marambio wrote:
>> With the next reboot after today's System Update (which included
>> updates for pkg's linux and nvidia) the kernel was not able the
>> partitions anymore and froze. Having the system restored with a
>> liveCD and chroot I found in pacman.log dozens of lines like this
>>
>> [2012-06-15 17:39]   -> Running build hook: [fsck] [2012-06-15
>> 17:39] cp: cannot stat
>> '/lib/modules/3.4.2-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/at$ [2012-06-15 17:39]
>> cp: cannot stat '/lib/modules/3.4.2-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/hi$
>> [2012-06-15 17:39] cp: cannot stat
>> '/lib/modules/3.4.2-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/hi$ [2012-06-15 17:39]
>> cp: cannot stat '/lib/modules/3.4.2-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/hi$
>> [2012-06-15 17:39] cp: cannot stat
>> '/lib/modules/3.4.2-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/hi$ [2012-06-15 17:39]
>> cp: cannot stat '/lib/modules/3.4.2-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/hi$
>> [2012-06-15 17:39] cp: cannot stat
>> '/lib/modules/3.4.2-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/hi$ [2012-06-15 17:39]
>> cp: cannot stat '/lib/modules/3.4.2-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/hi$
>>
>> Because no one else reported this here it seems to be specific to
>> my installation. Did the modules move to another directory with
>> 3.4.2-2 oder did I miss a package in the past ?
>>
> I also saw this. It seems to have sorted itself out, but I had
> previously relinked depmod, which had previously effectively been
> linked to /sbin/usr/bin/kmod, as follows:
>
> graton% ls -al $(which depmod)
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun  8 21:53 /sbin/depmod -> /usr/bin/kmod

So you got the same errors, relinked depmod and ran pacman -S again, 
right (otherwise you should have gotten the same bugy kernel image like 
me) ?

How did you "relink" depmod in details ? Or: where has the symlink has 
to be placed ? Sounds like it could be the one-command-solution for me 
already. :)

>
> Notice that the link is absolute rather than relative. As a
> precaution, I ran:
>
> graton# pacman -S linux
> warning: linux-3.4.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
>
> And it was fine.
>
> - --
> David Benfell
> benfell at parts-unknown.org
>
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