I've seen this happen before on a small scale, but this is ridiculous:

[rutledge@nucleus][10:56:54pm] depmod -a
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/coda.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/lockd.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/nfs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/nfsd.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/smbfs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/ipv4/rarp.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/bttv.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/cmpci.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ircomm-tty.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/irport.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/irtty.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/nsc-ircc.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/parport.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/parport_pc.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/smc-ircc.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sunrpc.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/toshoboe.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/w83977af_ir.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/ipddp.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/ircomm.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/irda.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/irlan.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/ppp.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/slip.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi/BusLogic.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi/ppa.o

[rutledge@nucleus][11:03:22pm] depmod -e 
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/coda.o
depmod: 	waitqueue_lock
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/lockd.o
depmod: 	kernel_flag
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/nfs.o
depmod: 	waitqueue_lock
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/nfsd.o
depmod: 	kernel_flag
depmod: 	do_nfsservctl
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/smbfs.o
depmod: 	kernel_flag
depmod: 	tqueue_lock
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/ipv4/rarp.o
depmod: 	global_bh_lock
depmod: 	__global_cli
depmod: 	__global_sti
depmod: 	synchronize_bh
... (a lot more)

I'm just trying to get a rarp module working so I can get a Sun IPC to
boot (it can't get past the attempt to get an IP address), so I'm doing
this on my main Linux workstation which has been running 2.2.14 for a 
long time... figured I might as well get up-to-date while I'm at it.
The kernel and modules are all freshly compiled.  Any ideas?

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