Re: A module bug in 2.2.1?

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Thu, 04 Feb 1999 18:03:32 +0100


"Adam J. Richter" wrote:

> I "guarantee" you that the reason for the segmentation fault
> is a memory allocation failure because the infinitely recursive
> invocations (modprobe -> syslog -> wants unix sockets -> modprobe).
>
> You are probably missing the following line from /etc/conf.modules:
>
> alias net-pf-1 unix

The problem seems to be that modutils 2.1.121 seems to have bugs.
I'm seeing a similar problem with 'eth1', and downgrading
to modutils 2.1.85 seemed to fix it for me.

Tom

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