Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:00:10 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.5-bk]  'modules_install' failed to install modules
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 06:18:27PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
 > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:40:47AM -0700, walt wrote:
 > > I pulled the latest changesets just now and found this weird behavior:
 > > 
 > > 'make' and 'make install' worked as expected, but 'make modules_install'
 > > just deleted all the old modules, ran depmod, and then installed no new
 > > modules -- nothing.
 > > 
 > > I finally found that doing another 'make' fixed whatever the problem
 > > was and allowed modules_install to work properly the second time.
 > > 
 > > This happened on two different machines, so I'm fairly sure it wasn't
 > > just me having a brainfart.
 > 
 > This is my second report about this.
 > But you gave some new info "work properly the second time".
 > This was not the case for the other person.

Make this the third.  I just saw it happen here too.
'make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install' fails in the above way.
Doing a 'make' seems to work.

		Dave
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