Re: SCSI emulation module unload problem.

From: Rui Sousa (rsousa@grad.physics.sunysb.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 00:53:00 EST


Keith Owens wrote:
>
> >
> >This seems to be the normal situation, modules get removed periodically by
> >/sbin/rmmod -as in a cron job and get loaded right back (?why?):
>
> You have kernel module loader support compiled in. This automatically
> loads modules as required. The cron job automatically unloads those
> modules that are not in use.

It seems something on my desktop (gnome, enlightenment) is forcing the module
loading...
 
> >Mar 9 01:50:00 localhost kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
> >Mar 9 01:50:01 localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.3.49/scsi/sr_mod.o: unresolved
> >symbol scsi_io_completion
> >
> >the scsi module seems to have been removed under the sr_mod module.... After
> >this even
> >a /sbin/lsmod fails (with an error I forgot to write down :(
>
> scsi_io_completion is in scsi_lib, part of scsi_mod. Either scsi_mod
> is not being reloaded when required or, more likely, it is still
> present but is marked as deleted. Please reproduce and do "cat
> /proc/modules". If scsi_mod is marked "(deleted)" then the problem is
> that scsi_mod cleanup is not working.

It was the case.

>There are known bugs in scsi
> clean up on 2.3.49, try 2.3.50.

Running 2.3.51pre2. Haven't been able to reproduce it yet, or,
in a more optimistic view, it's fixed :)

Thank you,

Rui Sousa

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