[systemd-devel] Load Kernel Modules failure after apt-get dist-upgrade

[Isla Finney]

modinfo cifs and uname -a match

On 3 February 2017 at 09:43, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Isla Finney <dr.isla.finney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a number of cifs mount points from linux to a NAS server.
>> After using apt-get dist-upgrade, I get Load Kernel Modules failed on
>> start up
>> The cifs-utils module is installed but does not seem to be recognised and
>> I can no longer see the mount points.
>>
>> I've tried rebooting, purging (dpkg -P) and re-installing cifs-utils
>> (apt-get install), and editing the grub file then updating grub and
>> rebooting (it didn't change to the older kernel) and have run out of ideas
>> so any help appreciated.
>>
>
> First, this has nothing to do with systemd. The service you found is only
> used to trigger manual loading of modules that didn't get loaded
> automatically – but that doesn't mean systemd is actually doing all the
> loading.
>
> That's initiated by kmod (e.g. using `modprobe cifs`) and done by the
> kernel on its own, so "unknown symbol" in dmesg has nothing to do with
> systemd. You're probably trying to load the wrong module version; compare
> `modinfo cifs` with `uname -a`.
>
> Second, both "fuse" and "cifs-utils" packages only contain the *userspace
> tools* – the actual kernel modules are part of the kernel package itself,
> as you can see from `dpkg -S <path_from_modinfo>`.
>
> --
> Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
>
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