[svlug] Help! - modprobe going crazy

[Seth David Schoen]

Aaron Lehmann writes:

> Glancing through my /var/log/messages file, I see:
> 
> Nov 29 04:09:08 vitelus modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6
> Nov 29 04:10:12 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
> Nov 29 04:11:16 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
> Nov 29 04:12:20 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
> Nov 29 04:13:24 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
> Nov 29 04:14:28 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
> Nov 29 04:15:32 vitelus last message repeated 2 times
> Nov 29 04:16:36 vitelus last message repeated 2 times 
> 
> Another one of these messages appears about every minute. What is modprobe
> bitching about? modprobe is not running after boot, so how is it sending
> all these complaints?

char-major-6 seems to be parallel port devices; probably you didn't compile
any into the kernel, nor compile any modules for them, and you have kerneld
running, and some process on the system is trying to access a parallel port
device.

You can probably get rid of these messages by (quick guesses):

- killing kerneld (not a great idea)
- compiling a printer-port driver of some sort as a module (e.g. lp.o)
- adding "alias char-major-6 off" to /etc/conf.modules

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