Re: X & modprobe gone wild
Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu> wrote:
> > > Jul 8 14:45:09 eyry modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6
> > The char device with major number 6 if the printer. Do you have one?
> Stopping the printer daemon helped somewhat. No, I don't have
> a printer, although there's a couple on the network and a deskwriter
[...]
> 95 ? S 0:01 /sbin/kerneld
> 11167 ? S 0:00 \_ modprobe -k -s char-major-6
Something, somewhere, is repeatedly trying to open the printer device
(/dev/lp*), hence the invocation of modprobe by kerneld.
It's unusual for anything other than lpd to open /dev/lp*, so I would
look there. You say that you have no local printer, but there are a couple
of network printers you use - is there any chance that your /etc/printcap
contains a definition of a local printer? If so, then accidentally sending
a job to that queue would make lpd start trying to open the printer port
to print the data.
It may be that the printer software comes with a local queue configured
by default (I don't know - I haven't un-tar'ed Debian 1.3 yet). If so,
you should probably de-configure the local queue from /etc/printcap.
Allan
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