On Tuesday, November 01, 2005 @ 6:28 AM, Russ wrote:
I'm getting this error in the log file on a regular basis --
linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi(lib/modules/2.6.11.4-29.9-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.k0): No such device
Well, I don't have any sony devices, so I can understand why it would say that. Not sure why my system is trying to use a sony module when I don't have a sony device. I did a modprobe -R on sonypi.so, but that didn't seem to fix it. I'm not noticing any impact from this, but I'd just as soon get rid of that message if possible. It makes me a bit uncomfortable to be continually getting FATAL errors written to my log file. Makes me think it could rise up and bite me somewhere down the line. I did some web surfing for "Error inserting sonypi" and found multiple hits. One person was talking about modifying modprobe.conf to remove the references to it to get rid of the message. He seemed to be saying that that was the solution. In my modprobe.conf, I have two entries referencing sonypi (though not sonypi.so). They are
alias char-major-10-250 sonypi options sonypi minor=250
Should I comment out these two lines? Is it really that simple?
Thanks, Greg Wallace I'm also getting the same error and I have a sony 52x-32x-52x CDRW. I cannot
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 04:46, Greg Wallace wrote: figure why its giving me the error. Have not noticed any problem whith the drive so far.
-- Russ
Well, I decided to just comment out the two sonypi lines in modprobe.conf. That got rid of the error message and didn't cause any new error messages to print out, so maybe that's resolved it. I decided to take this approach, instead of using the blacklist, because I figure, this way, if modprobe.conf ever gets corrected, I'll automatically get a new modprobe.conf file, my patch will go away, and I'll have a cleaner install at that point. If the error comes back with a later patch, I can just comment those lines out again. It's not really causing me any problems, just putting that error message in the log every time I boot up. So, if the problem comes back, I can just fix it whenever I happen to see it. Greg Wallace