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Re: devfs1.3.10

To: Jeremy Brown <mee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: devfs1.3.10
From: Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:52:15 +0200
Cc: devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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References: <39821840.41C1F3E1@baldauf.org> <3984CB3F.23AF646C@engr.sgi.com>
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Jeremy Brown wrote:

> Xuan Baldauf wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Setting "include /etc/modules.conf" in /etc/modules.devfs does not work
> > for me. After tracking the problem down, I set the include to the start
> > of the file and then it worked.
> >
> > My system:
> >
> > SuSE6.3
> > Linux desktop 2.4.0-test5 #1 Fri Jul 28 19:12:56 CEST 2000 i586 unknown
> > modprobe version 2.3.6
> >
> > I hope that is enough to indentifiy the real problem source (maybe I
> > have a too old or too new modprobe?)
> >
> > Xuân. :o)
>
> I have experienced exactly the same behavior on TurboLinux 6.0 with
> modutils 2.3.11-1. Do you also see a stream of "Cannot locate module
> /dev/<something>" at boot?

I do this too, but also when placing "include /etc/modules.conf" to the top
of /etc/modules.devfs. But I'm sure this time the remaining problem is
somewhere in the init scripts, a process wants to access /dev/xconsole where
no xconsole is. I have to track it down.

>
>
> Jeremy Brown
> SGI

Xuân. :o)



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