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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:00:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.7 and runaway modprobe loop? 
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Keith Owens wrote:

| On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:17:08 -0700 (PDT),
| "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
| >If I build/boot 2.5.7 with 64 GB support (with or without
| >high_pte), I get:
| >
| >Freeing unused kernel memory: 448k freed
| >INIT: version 2.78 booting
| >kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
| >kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
| >kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
| >kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
| >kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
| >
| >If I build/boot it with 4 GB support, it boots fine.
| >
| >Fixes, suggestion?
|
| If /var/log/ksymoops exists and is mounted rw when that message is
| issued, look at 20020409.log to see what modprobe is asking for.
| Otherwise add a printk to kernel/kmod::request_module() to print
| module_name.  In either case, work out why it is going recursive.

Thanks for replying, Keith.

I added module_name to the runaway message (OK ?) and its
answer is binfmt-0000.

I also moved from 2.5.7 to 2.5.8-pre2 and don't have this
problem.

-- 
~Randy

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