[arch-general] Kernel modules not loaded after Linux update

Shawn Rainey srainey at delta-info.com
Mon Jul 30 13:36:04 UTC 2018


Am 22.07.2018 um 11:27 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld:

> 

> Hello,

> 

> I've updated my installation yesterday, also doing an update of the 

> Linux kernel to 4.17.8. When starting this morning, kernel modules 

> rejected to load, so I even couldn't access the internet.

> 

> I've downgraded Linux now to 4.17.2, but still have some problems 

> (probably because I only downgraded the kernel itself).

> 

> I cannot find the error message from the service again, sorry, so I 

> cannot tell You, it had to do with some security parameter not set.

> 

> According to the description of kernel downgrading in the wiki, I 

> should have downgraded linux-headers, too, but these are not in my 

> package cache - are they included in the kernel package now?

> 

> How can I find out, which other kernel modules need to be downgraded?

> 

> Kind regards

> 

> Peter

 

This happened to me on 2 installations so far (the only 2 I've done) on 

updating the kernel to 4.17.10-1.   It looks like the problem is that the

/boot partition was not mounted, as it usually is, during the update
process.

This caused the previously installed kernel to load, and the modules to fail

to load due to version mismatch.  

 

I fixed it by booting to live media, mounting the /boot and / partitions 

appropriately and doing arch-chroot to / to install the cached 4.17.10 image


with pacman -U

 

For now I've also put the /boot partition in my fstab, even though iirc 

the wiki recommends against this.

 

Good luck,

 

-Shawn



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