Re: net-pf-10, 2.6.1

Jim McCloskey
2004-01-31T23:36:18Z

* Russell King (rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk) 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 <maze@cela.pl> 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