Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)
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Daniel Barclay wrote:
>
> Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem?
> Has anyone else even seen these symptoms?
>
>
>
> Earlier I reported a problem with installing potato (from scratch)
> and getting errors at boot time like:
>
> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
>
> and many occurrences of:
>
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies files /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
>
> (Note that those errors were from booting the installation boot
> diskettes (rescue.bin/root.bit). Specifically, it was from
> before I had a chance to make any choices or affect anything.)
>
>
>
>
> I thought I'd try getting to potato by upgrading (a clone of) my
> slink system. The upgrade went pretty well (well, I accidentally
> upgraded the original instead of the clone, but the clone seems
> to be working fine) until I installed the 2.2.17 kernel and rebooted.
> Those boot-time errors returned.
>
> I also started getting a bunch of other errors, such as:
>
> - "modprobe: Can't locate module xxx"
> (at bootup; for roughly half of the modules)
>
> - "start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported"
> (asynchonously, after something had triggered diald)
>
> - "Use of setserial/setrocket to set SPD_* flags is deprecated"
> (asynchonously)
>
> - something like "xmit when interface down"
> (asynchonously)
>
> - (I can't even ping the other end of my diald's PPP connection
> (I used the numeric IP address logged by pppd when it
> connected).)
>
>
>
> Are there any known hardware dependencies that could affect this
> (especially when just booted of the installation diskettes)?
>
> Here's what I can think of regarding mysystem:
>
> - Gigabyte GX-5AX revision 3.0 motherboard
> - AMD K6-2 300MHz
> - 128MB DRAM
> - dual IDE controller, UDMA/33
> - IDE disks on hda, hdc
> - IDE CD-ROM on hdd
> - Diamond Viper V330
> - TekRam DC390-F SCSI card (for tape drive; no disks attached)
> - SoundBlaster 16 (?; version that causes "missing second channel" message in
> 2.0.38/slink )
> - USB ports (not used)
> - standard floppy
> - no network card (I use ppp via diald)
> - no ZIP drive
> - nothing special or weird that I can think of
>
> - works fine under my Slink system
>
>
> Can anyone help me with this? I've been trying to upgrade
> to potato for over a week.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Barclay
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