Re: net-pf-10, 2.6.1

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

* 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