Re: modprobe failed: digest_null

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 19:06:48 EST


On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:38:45 -0800 (PST) "David Rees" <drees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| On Tue, January 13, 2004 at 3:03 pm, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| >
| > OK, maybe someone else has an answer then.
| >
| > The message:
| > kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- digest_null. error = 256
| > is from modutils and not from module-init-tools according to my
| > source files.
|
| I'm getting similar messages from dmesg after upgrading to 2.6.1, too:
|
| request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- n. error = 256
|
| [drees@summit drees]$ /sbin/modprobe -V
| module-init-tools version 3.0-pre5
| [drees@summit drees]$
|
| Running on Fedora Core 1 compiled with gcc 3.3.2. Didn't see these with
| 2.6.0.

Yes, I see a couple of similar messages:

request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- parport_lowlevel. error = -16
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- fb0. error = 256

...?

--
~Randy
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