Bug#420263: linux-image-2.6.18-k7-4: Some kernel modules won't load from time to time
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-k7-4
Version: linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7
Severity: important
>From time to time it is impossible to load some kernel modules, notably
sound modules and the nvidia kernel module. The output in
/var/log/messages looks like this:
kernel: snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_seq_device_new
kernel: snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_seq_device_new
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_receive
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit_ack
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit_peek
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_new
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_set_ops
kernel: snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_seq_device_new
kernel: snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_receive
kernel: snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit
kernel: snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_seq_device_new
kernel: snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_new
kernel: snd_emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_set_ops
kernel: snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_seq_device_new
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_receive
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit_ack
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit_peek
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_new
kernel: snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_set_ops
kernel: snd_mpu401: Unknown symbol snd_mpu401_uart_new
(I've left out the timestamp and hostname.)
In the example above the sound device is rendered unusable since it is
impossible to modprobe snd_emu10k1 manually, it will just throw the same
error messages as above. Rebooting usually fixes the problem.
I've also experienced this problem with the nvidia module, but with
snd_emu10k1 it has happened several times.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)
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