Package: kernel-package Version: 9.008.4 Severity: minor I just installed a new kernel but it told me that the modules directory exists already and asked whether I really want to continue. There was only a "build" directory in the modules dir, pointing to linux-headers. The build symlink should be ignored when checking if there are modules.
Transcript: The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/16.7MB of archives. After unpacking 48.6MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 104552 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6.12-1-686_2.6.12-10_i386.deb) ... You are attempting to install a kernel image (version 2.6.12-1-686) However, the directory /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-686 still exists. If this directory belongs to a previous linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 package, and if you have deselected some modules, or installed standalone modules packages, this could be bad. However, if this directory exists because you are also installing some stand alone modules right now, and they got unpacked before I did, then this is pretty benign. Unfortunately, I can not tell the difference. If /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-686 belongs to a old install of linux-image-2.6.12-1-686, then this is your last chance to abort the installation of this kernel image (nothing has been changed yet). At the same time from a different terminal: 758:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~] ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-686 total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-11-01 05:58 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2005-11-01 05:56 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2005-11-01 05:40 build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1-686 759:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~] -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.0.2-1 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.0 [c-compiler] 4.0.2-3 The GNU C compiler ii make 3.80-11 The GNU version of the "make" util ii perl 5.8.7-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: ii bzip2 1.0.2-10 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Development Librari -- no debconf information -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
