[svlug] Help! - modprobe going crazy

[Rob Walker]

>>>>> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 19:44:05 +0000 ( ), Aaron Lehmann
>>>>> <aaronl at vitelus.com> said:

Aaron> Glancing through my /var/log/messages file, I see:
Aaron> Nov 29 04:09:08 vitelus modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6
Aaron> Nov 29 04:10:12 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
Aaron> Nov 29 04:11:16 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
Aaron> Nov 29 04:12:20 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
Aaron> Nov 29 04:13:24 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
Aaron> Nov 29 04:14:28 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
Aaron> Nov 29 04:15:32 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
Aaron> Nov 29 04:16:36 vitelus last message repeated 2 times 

Aaron> Another one of these messages appears about every minute. What
Aaron> is modprobe bitching about? modprobe is not running after boot,

it is complaining that someone is trying to load up the module
char-major-6, and cannot find it.  the 'someone' i speak of is
kerneld, and I hope that it is running, for your sake.

Aaron> so how is it sending all these complaints?

modprobe is not sending them, kerneld is.  

what you need to do to shut them up is to put a line in your
/etc/conf.modules which looks like the following:

alias char-major-6 off

but I *highly* recommend that you find out what char-major-6 *is*, and
whether or not you can be secure in turning it off, or whether you
need to fix the problem, instead of shutting it up.

rob

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