[WLUG] A question about kernel modules

[sallyvdv]

Mark,
It was a good guess.  I removed the pae image and header, rebooted and it
worked perfectly.

Thank you!!!
Sally


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Mark Montague <markmont at umich.edu> wrote:

> On December 12, 2013 at 14:31 , sallyvdv <sallyvdv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> $ strings security.ko
>> vermagic=3.2.0-32-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 686
>>
>
>  $ sudo insmod security.ko
>> [sudo] password for sally:
>> insmod: error inserting 'security.ko': -1 Invalid module format
>>
>> My syslog file shows this corresponding error:
>> security: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
>>
>
>  $ uname -a
>> Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-32-generic-pae #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 26 21:54:23 UTC
>> 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>
> It's just a guess, but it looks like you are trying to load a kernel
> module built for a kernel without PAE into a kernel built with PAE. Try a
> non-PAE kernel and see if that helps.
>
> See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2720177/module-
> layout-version-incompatibility
>
> Luck!
>
> --
>   Mark Montague
>   LSA IT Advocacy and Research Support
>   University of Michigan
>   markmont at umich.edu
>
>
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