Hi Harry, I took a look at modutils-2.4.26-1.i386.rpm from eg. http://www.btree.org/linux/sources/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4/ Changelog dated 2003-10-28 includes: * Suppress module not found message on modprobe -q. Frank Murphy. but modutils-2.4.26-1 does not include, eg. generate_modprobe.conf The SUSE modutils-2.4.25-78 RPM seems to be a combination of modutils-2.4.25 and module-init-tools-0.9.13-pre as per eg. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/ See also, eg. http://rpmfind.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/RPM/suse/9.0/i386/suse/i586/ modutils-2.4.25-56.i586.html Thus the SUSE modutils-2.4.25 does not have the fix listed in the Changelog for modutils-2.4.26-1, and yet I can't install modutils-2.4.26-1 because it will mess up module-init-tools. I'm not sure if I can replace modutils-2.4.25 with the combination of say modutils-2.4.26-1 and module-init-tools-0.9.14 without messing something up or leaving somthing out. 1) Why did SUSE combine these two separate packages into one? 2) Will I mess things up if I install the two separate pristine packages instead of the SUSE one? 3) Will SUSE separate these packages in the next distribution release? Thanks
From: Berge, Harry ten (berge_at_hitt.nl) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:23:07 +0100 Subject: RE: [SLE] 2.6.1 kernel boots with many "request_module: failed" messages
I've recently installed the kraxel kernel-default-26-2.6.1-0.i586.rpm and when I boot using 2.6.1, I get many messages like:
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- block-major-129-225. error = 256 ... request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- block-major-8-255. error = 256 ...snip... Do I need to fix my modprobe.conf? If so, exactly how? Or is there something wrong with the 2.6.1 kernel? Do I need to compile the kernel myself rather than use the default rpm? If so, what do I need to change in the configuration?
Or is it maybe something else, like a bug in modprobe or hotplug? I have modutils-2.4.25-78, hotplug-2002_08_26-22 and hotplug-beta-2003.11.11-6
I see the same thing for the Alsa modules. If I load them by hand it works perfectly. But AFAIK we need a updated modutils :-(