Since compiling and installing 2.6.1, I, like many others, get these
repeated error messages:
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Jan 29 22:48:56 kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Jan 29 22:53:01 kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Jan 29 22:56:28 kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Jan 29 23:08:01 kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Jan 29 23:14:48 kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Jan 29 23:23:01 kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Jan 29 23:31:40 kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
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I do not have ipv6 support in my kernel-config:
# CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP is not set
# CONFIG_IPV6 is not set
# CONFIG_DECNET is not set
The version of module-init-tools is 3.0-pre5-1 from Debian testing.
Is there any guidance about this little annoyance yet? Most of the
advice I've seen (on other lists) suggests putting the following in
modprobe.conf:
install net-pf-10 /bin/true
But this has made no difference for me.
There seems to be a correlation between the issue of the error-message
and regular exim runs:
Jan 29 22:53:01 ohlone /USR/SBIN/CRON[284]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/lib
/exim/exim3 -q ; fi)
Jan 29 22:53:01 ohlone kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Jan 30 00:23:01 ohlone /USR/SBIN/CRON[311]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -q ; fi)
Jan 30 00:23:01 ohlone kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
Almost all of the error messages from modprobe come exactly on the
heels of a call from cron to run exim. But why should exim spawn an
attempt to load this module? And why just with kernel 2.6.1?
Thanks for any advice,
Jim
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:36:28AM -0800, root wrote:
> Is there any guidance about this little annoyance yet? Most of the
> advice I've seen (on other lists) suggests putting the following in
> modprobe.conf:
>
> install net-pf-10 /bin/true
You want:
alias net-pf-10 off
> Almost all of the error messages from modprobe come exactly on the
> heels of a call from cron to run exim. But why should exim spawn an
> attempt to load this module? And why just with kernel 2.6.1?
Because its trying to see if the kernel supports IPv6 by creating an
IPv6 socket. Since the IPv6 module is not available, it correctly
fails and uses IPv4 instead.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:36:28AM -0800, root wrote:
> Is there any guidance about this little annoyance yet? Most of the
> advice I've seen (on other lists) suggests putting the following in
> modprobe.conf:
>
> install net-pf-10 /bin/true
>
> But this has made no difference for me.
Did you run "update-modules" afterward?
* Russell King ([email protected]) wrote:
|> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:36:28AM -0800, jim wrote:
|> > Is there any guidance about this little annoyance yet? Most of
|> > the advice I've seen (on other lists) suggests putting the
|> > following in modprobe.conf:
|> >
|> > install net-pf-10 /bin/true
|>
|> You want:
|>
|> alias net-pf-10 off
* Maciej Zenczykowski <[email protected]> wrote:
|> try
|>
|> "alias net-pf-10 off" in /etc/modules.conf
* Greg Norris wrote:
|> Did you run "update-modules" afterward?
Thank you all for helping. I'm sorry I didn't make clear initially
that this (aliasing net-pf-10 to off) was the first thing I tried. I
resorted to Google when it didn't work. I've tried it again but the
error-messages continue. /lib/modules/modprobe.conf now has:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7341 Jan 30 15:26 modprobe.conf
alias net-pf-1 unix
alias net-pf-2 ipv4
alias net-pf-3 ax25
alias net-pf-4 ipx
alias net-pf-5 appletalk
alias net-pf-6 netrom
alias net-pf-7 bridge
alias net-pf-8 atm
alias net-pf-9 x25
alias net-pf-10 off
alias net-pf-11 rose
alias net-pf-12 decnet
and contains no other reference to net-pf-10. But still:
Jan 31 14:53:01 ohlone /USR/SBIN/CRON[1092]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -q ; fi)
Jan 31 14:53:01 ohlone kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- net-pf-10. error = 256
for every time exim runs.
Others have reported the same effect, e.g:
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-hackers/2004-January/000297.html
This didn't happen in 2.6.0 (or earlier).
This is a very small problem indeed, of course. It's just weird ...
Jim