Re: potato installation problem: lp driver; get "init_module: Device or resource busy" message: MORE DATA

[Daniel Barclay <dsb@smart.net>]

> I'm having trouble with the current pre-release of potato.  I
> can't tell if this is a bug, an odd incompatibility in my system 
> (which works fine with slink), or something I'm doing wrong.
> 
> 
> When I get to the step of configuring device drivers, I can't 
> install module lp.
> ...

Here's something else I noticed:

When the system boots, right before the first installation program
dialog comes up, a number of repeated messages flash by on the screen, 
saying (approximately--they flashed by):
   ... modprobe: can't open dependency file /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

Also, I noticed a message on the fourth virtual console (I had booted 
with "linux verbose debug"):

   kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped 


I tried running modprobe from the command line, and got the same
error message (one).


Are those messages normal?



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