Update your modules

If your Gandi packages are up-to-date (gandi-hosting-vm2 particularly), needed modules will be automatically installed after a stop/start.

Information

If you were using our services during the beta phase, you will need to reboot your server in order to use the latest kernel available.

Update process

In order to update your server's modules, you need to:

  • Change directory to root: cd /
  • Download the modules' archive: wget http://mirrors.gandi.net/kernel/$(uname -r)-modules.tar.gz
  • Move the existing modules: mv -f /lib/modules/$(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname -r).old
  • Uncompress the archive: tar xzf $(uname -r)-modules.tar.gz
  • Then : depmod $(uname -r)
  • If you are upgrading a module, you might want to list loaded modules: lsmod
  • Test the presence of the new module: modinfo your_module . For example: modinfo ipv6 returns with the information field of the module.
  • If everything went well, delete the old directory: rm -rf /lib/modules/$(uname -r).old and remove the downloaded file rm /$(uname -r)-modules.tar.gz
  • If needed, reload the module rmmod your_module ; modprobe your_module to use the new version

Your modules are now available.

You can check all the previous version of kernel for your server here.

Last modified: 03/14/2017 at 20:50 by Jonathan G. (Gandi)