From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265238AbUBAJ2t (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 04:28:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265242AbUBAJ2s (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 04:28:48 -0500 Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.22]:39653 "EHLO hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265238AbUBAJ2q (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 04:28:46 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: net-pf-10, 2.6.1 Message-Id: From: Jim McCloskey Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 01:28:55 -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --text follows this line-- * On Sat Jan 31 2004 - 21:36:58 EST, Steve Youngs wrote: |> > |> > install net-pf-10 /bin/true |> |> This _is_ what you want in your modprobe.conf file. Or possibly |> `install net-pf-10-* /bin/true', but I'm pretty sure that Rusty has |> added some backward compatibility code so that either _should_ work. |> |> The other thing that you need to do once you have updated |> modprobe.conf is to run `depmod' to regenerate the dependency |> files. I've tried the variations I can think of---putting the line: install net-pf-10 /bin/true in /lib/modules/modprobe.conf via update-modules, or directly by hand-editing. Then depmod; then reboot. Also: install net-pf-10-* /bin/true install net-pf-* /bin/true All variations still lead to: Jan 31 23:08:01 ohlone kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256 Jan 31 23:23:01 ohlone kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256 on each run of exim from cron (Debian exim has ipv6 support compiled in). If I run modprobe manually, I get: ohlone# modprobe net-pf-10 FATAL: Module ipv6 not found. indicating that modprobe knows about the alias, but is not running /bin/true when requested to load the module. However: if I manually edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases (which you're not supposed to do), so as to comment out: # alias net-pf-10 ipv6 and then add: install ipv6 /bin/true (update-modules; depmod; reboot), `modprobe ipv6' from the command-line completes silently and without error (but without loading the module, of course, since it doesn't exist). Which I think is the expected behaviour. But even at that point, in the logs we still get: Feb 1 00:53:01 ohlone /USR/SBIN/CRON[280]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -q ; fi) Feb 1 00:53:01 ohlone kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256 (because exim is trying to load the module under the name net-pf-10??) Here are some pointers to what seems to be the same or a similar problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user-german@lists.debian.org/msg66557.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg236360.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/13/72 http://forum.hardware.fr/hardwarefr/OSAlternatifs/citer-24424-387523-58.htm Oh well, it is a very small problem (all it does is clutter the log-files). Thanks very much to all who helped, Jim