Kernel Module oddities, cha-cha-cha.

Steve McKnelly (denali@sunflower.com)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 17:12:34 -0500


I decided to upgrade my machine to RedHat 6.0. After upgrading, I found
that the kernel that was included was 2.2.5, so I decided to upgrade. After
the upgrade, and the reboot, I started seeing the following errors in the
log:

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Aug 15 15:07:26 shadowforge PAM_pwdb[686]: (su) session opened for user xfs
by (uid=0)
Aug 15 15:07:27 shadowforge pam_xauth[686]: do_file: could not create dir
/etc/X11/fs/.xauth
Aug 15 15:07:27 shadowforge PAM_pwdb[686]: (su) session closed for user xfs
Aug 15 15:07:27 shadowforge pam_xauth[686]: do_file: could not create dir
/etc/X11/fs/.xauth
Aug 15 15:07:27 shadowforge xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Aug 15 15:06:50 shadowforge fsck: /dev/sdb8: clean, 11/28112 files,
3584/112423 blocks
Aug 15 15:06:50 shadowforge fsck: /dev/sda5: clean, 22/127512 files,
35349/508912 blocks
Aug 15 15:06:50 shadowforge fsck: /dev/sdb5: clean, 732/132600 files,
72018/530113 blocks
Aug 15 15:06:50 shadowforge fsck: /dev/sdb1: clean, 56940/263160 files,
875436/1052226 blocks
Aug 15 15:06:50 shadowforge fsck: /dev/sdb6: clean, 255/66264 files,
28931/265041 blocks
Aug 15 15:06:50 shadowforge rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
Aug 15 10:06:55 shadowforge rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems succeeded
Aug 15 10:06:55 shadowforge rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for
local filesystems succeeded
Aug 15 20:06:58 shadowforge date: Sun Aug 15 15:06:58 CDT 1999
Aug 15 15:06:58 shadowforge rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Sun Aug 15 15:06:58
CDT 1999 succeeded
Aug 15 15:06:58 shadowforge rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded
Aug 15 15:06:58 shadowforge init: Entering runlevel: 3
Aug 15 15:06:59 shadowforge apmd[118]: Version 3.0beta4 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux
driver 1.9)
Aug 15 15:06:59 shadowforge apmd: apmd startup succeeded
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:0
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:1
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:2
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:3
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:4
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:5
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:6
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:7
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:8
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:9
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:10
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:11
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:12
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:13
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:14
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:15
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:16
Aug 15 15:07:03 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:17
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:18
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:19
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:20
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:21
Aug 15 15:07:11 shadowforge crond: crond startup succeeded
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:22
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:23
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:24
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:25
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:26
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:27
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:28
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:29
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:30
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:31
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:32
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:33
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:34
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:35
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:36
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:37
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:38
Aug 15 15:07:04 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:39
Aug 15 15:07:12 shadowforge inet: inetd startup succeeded
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:40
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:41
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:42
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:43
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:44
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:45
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:46
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:47
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:48
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module lo:49
Aug 15 15:07:05 shadowforge network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
Aug 15 15:07:06 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:0
Aug 15 15:07:06 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:1
Aug 15 15:07:06 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:2
Aug 15 15:07:06 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:3
Aug 15 15:07:06 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:4
Aug 15 15:07:06 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:5
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named[544]: starting. named 8.2 Wed Mar 31
10:57:12 EST 1999 ^Iroot@porky.devel.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs/
BUILD/bind-8.2/src/bin/named
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named[544]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named[544]: Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file
named.local): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named[544]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"
(IN) loaded (serial 1997022700)
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named[544]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named[544]: listening on [24.124.36.129].53
(eth0)
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named[544]: Forwarding source address is
[0.0.0.0].1024
Aug 15 15:07:06 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:6
Aug 15 15:07:06 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:7
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:8
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:9
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:10
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:11
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:12
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:13
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:14
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:15
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:16
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:17
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:18
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:19
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:20
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:21
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:22
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:23
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named[545]: Ready to answer queries.
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge named: named startup succeeded
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:24
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:25
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:26
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:27
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:28
Aug 15 15:07:07 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:29
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:30
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:31
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:32
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:33
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:34
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:35
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:36
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:37
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:38
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:39
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:40
Aug 15 15:07:13 shadowforge autofs: Starting automounter:
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:41
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:42
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:43
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:44
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:45
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:46
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:47
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:48
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge modprobe: can't locate module eth0:49
Aug 15 15:07:08 shadowforge network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded
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Sorry for the spam. 2 problems I see:
1) modprobe can't find a lo module, yet the interface comes up?
2) Same with eth0?

Admittedly, I'm not a total newbie to this, and I've been reading every doc
I could find.
However, this one has me at a standstill, and I don't quite understand why
it is doing it...
Any ideas?

Steve

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