"Could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/3.XX-generic/modules.dep.bin'" when mounting using a loop
Running 14.04 in virtualbox 4.3.8
Unable to detect the guest additions.iso when i selected the guest additions.iso in the IDE Secondary Master.
No problem, so I used wget and downloaded the iso into the guest ubuntu headless.
when I attempt to load the iso from inside using these commands:
sudo mkdir /media/iso
sudo modprobe loop
sudo mount filename.iso /media/iso -t iso9660 -o loop
At the sudo modprobe loop, I got the following error:
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:556 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/modules.dep.bin'
Here are my lsb_release -a:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
EDIT:
When I typed
ls /lib/modules/*/modules.dep.bin
I get back
/lib/modules/3.11.0-20-generic/modules.dep.bin /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/modules.dep.bin /lib/modules/3.5.0-49-generic/modules.dep.bin
Solution 1:
Thanks to Braiam comments, I have solved it using
sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-3.13.0
Solution 2:
No need to reinstall linux image
sudo depmod
works fine for me. credit goes to @pabouk
Solution 3:
It may be system changes waiting for a reboot after updates. My installation was pointing to the wrong /lib/modules/<version>, but it worked itself out after a reboot.
#:/ $ sudo modinfo iptable_nat
libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:557 kmod_search_moddep: could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.1.18+/modules.dep.bin'
modinfo: ERROR: Module alias iptable_nat not found.
Solution 4:
# apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-`uname -r`
This will do the trick unless you want to upgrade your kernel.
Solution 5:
In my case on a raspberry 3b+ running on the raspbian OS, trying to run a cryptsetup command which uses dm_mod in the kernel, which was not included in my kernel, this helped without needing a re-flash of the raspberry:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall --yes raspberrypi-bootloader raspberrypi-kernel
sudo reboot
Taken from this thread: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=282802
My cryptsetup command worked afterwards, while having the same error like OP stated: Cannot initialize device-mapper. Is dm_mod kernel module loaded? previously.