On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:30:15AM +0000, David Hough wrote: > This one has me baffled. I have a system running quite happily with > kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 and I use it with pptp to establish a VPN > connection. This works fine. However, both my attempts to use 2.6.16 > upgrade kernels (both 2111 and 2122, shown below) have failed due to the > errors as found in the system log. > > The strange thing is that I've got another machine where the upgrade > went quite happily and the PPP modules have installed without arguments. > > Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? I assume I've lost a module > somewhere although the only one that ppp_generic appears to require is > slhc and that's present. > ========================= > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting ppp_generic > (/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5/kernel/d > rivers/net/ppp_generic.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown > parameter (see dmesg) > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of > the University of California > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol > class_simple_device_add > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol > class_simple_destroy > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol > class_simple_device_remove > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol > class_simple_create Hmm, I vaguely remember this from quite a while back. iirc, it was caused by the pptp package bundling its own (out of date) ppp_generic module. The kernel rpm does include ppp_generic.ko, and it's not reliant upon any of those symbols. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
