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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Ashlesha Shintre <ashlesha@kenati.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:17:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061122221712.GB8819@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164224559.6511.4.camel@sandbar.kenati.com>

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:42:39AM -0800, Ashlesha Shintre wrote:

> During boot up on the Encore M3 board (AU1500 MIPS) of the 2.6.14.6
> kernel, the process stops after the NFS filesystem has been mounted,
> memory freed  and spits out the following message:
> 
> 
> > request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1

The kernel tried to open UNIX domain socket but because support is not
compiled it will load the module instead.  Now, glibc-based programs
happen to try to connect to nscd via a UNIX domain socket on startup
and the whole show starts all over.  After a few iterations the kernel
gets tired of the whole game and prints this friendly message.

> What does the net-pf-1 mean?

net-pf-1 is PF_UNIX, see the definitions in include/linux/socket.h.  So
you should set CONFIG_UNIX to y.  Building it as a module won't work
as you just found :).

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22 19:42 request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 Ashlesha Shintre
2006-11-22 19:38 ` sjhill
2006-11-22 22:17 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2006-11-22 23:44   ` Ashlesha Shintre
2006-11-23  0:10     ` mlachwani
2006-11-23  1:55       ` init cannot spawn shell Ashlesha Shintre
2006-11-23  6:45         ` Andre.Messerschmidt
2006-11-23  6:45           ` Andre.Messerschmidt
2006-11-23 14:09           ` Ralf Baechle

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