(unknown)

checked all those usual suspects 

the /etc/modutils/ftape-util has the correct entries & is unchanged

the /etc/modules.conf has the correct entries & is unchanged

they both match each other

lost for ideas here

James S




On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:52, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote:
> James Smith wrote:
> > ok
> > 
> > did an apt-get uprade yesterday on my debian system & now the tape
> > support has stopped working 
> > 
> > i'm using the same kernel & modules as before 
> > 
> 
> You mean you did not compile a new ftape kernel module package and 
> installed it? Just the upgrade broke ftape? Then I guess the problem
is 
> not with the ftape-source package.
> 
> It can be a problem with the ftape-util package, if you have it 
> installed and upgraded it. In debian, the parameters for loading ftape
> modules should be at file
> 
> /etc/modutils/ftape-util
> 
> Can you check that the values there are correct and that you are not 
> including them with different values in other file. Module claims to
be 
> 4.05, so it seems one of the recent snapshots I guess.
> 
> Other possible problem is if you have manually edited
/etc/modules.conf. 
> In Debian that file is autogenerated from files in /etc/modutils dir. 
> So, if you manually edited that file, in the upgrade it would have
been 
> regenerated and your changes lost after a call to update-modules by
one 
> of the maintainer scripts.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Agustin
> 
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