Re: [gNewSense-users] Modprobe and Unmet Package Dependencies

[Sam Geeraerts]

Paul Roge wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Lemote Yeeloong notebook that is running Gnewsense metad. I
> have three questions:
>
> 1. On startup, I receive the following warning:
>
> modprobe: Fatal: Could not
> load /lib/modules/2.6.32.11-libre1-lemote/modules.dep
> No such file or directory
>
> How can this be resolved?

Executing "dpkg -S modules.dep" in a terminal will tell you which 
packages the file modules.dep is in, with the full path. Reinstalling 
the package ("aptitude reinstall <package>" without the brackets) should 
bring the file back.

> 2. The following package upgrades are held back by apt-get due to unmet
> dependencies:
>  
> alacarte alsa-utils apt apt-listchanges apt-utils aptitude avahi-daemon
> bash bc bind9-host dnsutils libavahi-ui0
>
> Does this matter? How can the packages be upgraded?

It seems some packages in our repository got upgraded when they 
shouldn't have. We're looking into the issue.

> 3. Which kernel should I be using? I tried to replace
> linux-image-2.6.31.26-libre1-lemote with
> linux-image-2.6.36.1-libre-lemote, however thereafter grub-yeeloong and
> yeeloong-base were marked as obsolete. When I marked yeeloong-base for
> reinstallation, it asked to reinstall
> linux-image-2.6.31.26-libre1-lemote.

There's a hard dependency between yeeloong-base and 
linux-image-2.6.31.26-libre1-lemote. I recommend that you leave both 
packages installed. You can additionally install a newer Linux-libre 
version, like 2.6.36.1, without any problems. Currently the Linux-libre 
packages don't upgrade automatically, so you have to periodically check 
for newer versions if you want them. Sometimes we upgrade the dependency 
in yeeloong-base and then you do automatically get the upgrade.