From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:10:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:16845 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20039407AbWKWAK1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:10:27 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.139] (prometheus.mvista.com [10.0.0.139]) by hermes.mvista.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDB11C08B; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:10:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4564E6DA.1030504@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:10:02 -0800 From: mlachwani User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ashlesha@kenati.com Cc: Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 References: <1164224559.6511.4.camel@sandbar.kenati.com> <20061122221712.GB8819@linux-mips.org> <1164239075.6511.13.camel@sandbar.kenati.com> In-Reply-To: <1164239075.6511.13.camel@sandbar.kenati.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13243 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: mlachwani@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips CONFIG_UNIX is defined in net/unix/Kconfig or simply do a "make menuconfig" and search for UNIX. It depends on CONFIG_NET. Check your .config ... thanks, Manish Lachwani Ashlesha Shintre wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 22:17 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Thanks for your reply Ralf, but I dont see he CONFIG_UNIX option in my > Makefile, so I created one, but still get the same error! > is there anything else that i should try? > > Thanks again, > Ashlesha. > >> Building it as a module won't work >> as you just found :). >> >> Ralf >> > > >