Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-028stab068.9

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Tom H wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 2, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Hammad wrote:
>> 
>> I am facing a sever problem. I got my new VPS (10GB storage, 256mb RAM) and
>> got Ubuntu Jaunty installed (9.0.4).
>> My kernel does not support IPSec even. when I run depmode, it gives below
>> problem.
>> 
>> root at flexilogix:~# depmod -a
>> WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-028stab068.9: No such
>> file or directory
>> FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.18-028stab068.9/modules.dep.temp for
>> writing: No such file or directory
>> 
>> 
>> Can you please help how can I overcome this problem. Thanks for your help in
>> anticipation.
>> 
>> Who is the company that your VPS is with so I can see their arch and help
>> you out.
>> If they don't use Xen I can't help you though.
> 
> Unless it was a typo, 2.6.18-028stab068.9 isn't a Jaunty kernel
> (2.6.28, I think).
> 
> 2.6.18 looks like a RHEL/CentOS install; "-028..." is who knows what.

A lot of VPS providers do not use paravirt so they are on an older kernel that lines up with RHEL, they backport security patches.