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[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 20 October 2014 10:46:27 Thomas Blasejewicz did opine
And Gene did reply:
> (2014/10/20 23:09), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > depmod version gives:
> > kmod version 15
> > That is not what I asked, is it?  I asked for
> > depmod --version
> 
> But that is precisely what the computer tells me. using the command
> WITH the "--"
> 
> > /sbin/depmod  <-------is the executable you want to 'ls -l' of, we
> > want to see the permissions as thay exist now.
> 
> This one gives:
> /sbin/depmod
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic, modules.dep.tmp,
> 1101, 644): Permission denied
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic,
> modules.dep.bin.tmp, 1101, 644): Permission denied
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic,
> modules.alias.tmp, 1101, 644): Permission denied
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic,
> modules.alias.bin.tmp, 1101, 644): Permission denied
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic,
> modules.softdep.tmp, 1101, 644): Permission denied
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic,
> modules.symbols.tmp, 1101, 644): Permission denied
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic,
> modules.symbols.bin.tmp, 1101, 644): Permission denied
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic,
> modules.builtin.bin.tmp, 1101, 644): Permission denied
> depmod: ERROR: openat(/lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic,
> modules.devname.tmp, 1101, 644): Permission denied
> 
> I thought, I have solved one problem (which I seemingly did not),
> and instead get 10 or more new problems. (right now, A LOT of things
> are not working)
> 
> I am under the impression that reinstallation from scratch is the
> shortest way to bliss
> (if there is any such thing when dealing with linux)

So lets see what ypu get for an:

/sbin/depmod --version

The above batch of errors are likely what you get when running it as a 
normal user.  I get only the first error and it bails out.

With or without the sudo in front of it, it should return something like 
this:
module-init-tools 3.11.1

Yours may be a higher version number as I am on a 10.04.4 LTS install 
here.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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