Re: insmod problem

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Well, I've also tried 'insmod /path/to/cloop.ko' and there is a same
error. This has been bothering me ever since this morning:(

Is there anyone who has had the same problem before? 

TIA.
Lei

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 09:02, Michel Hubert wrote:
> Starting with kernel 2.6, kernel modules have some versions infos
> attached to them.  Thats the '*.ko' files.  That's the one you should
> insmod.
> 
> On my side, I have a different problem, specific to SuSE 9.1.  It works
> on other distros with kernel 2.6.   When linking, I have the following
> warning: "xxx is COMMON symbol".  And then when I try to load the
> module: "invalid module format"
> 
> I know SuSE uses a special branch of gcc 3.3 which includes some
> features of gcc 3.4.  But what could cause that ?  The common symbols
> are static members attributes of classes which are no different than
> many other similar static members....
> 
> Any clue ? 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 14:43, Lei Yang wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've got a problem here on installing cloop. I was trying to get
> > cloop-2.0.1 built and installed on a SuSe 9.1 box with kernel version
> > 2.6.5 . I followed all the instructions in    
> >         http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/cloop.README
> > and sucessfully went through compilation, depmod -a and mknod. 
> > 
> > I don't know how to create a compressed filesystem with cloop yet. But
> > when I tried to load the module into kernel, 'insmod /path/to/cloop.o",
> > there is an error:
> > insmod: error inserting 'cloop.o': -1 Invalid module format
> > 
> > What should I do with it? Could anyone help me? 
> > 
> > I am no expert in kernel modules and really appreciate any hints! 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Lei
> > 
> > 
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