Re: modprobe: Cannot locate module char-major-10
"Jeroen N. Witmond" <jnw@xs4all.nl> writes:
> I have searched the mailing list archives for this problem, and I
> understand it can be solved by aliasing module char-major-10 to off, but
> I would like to understand what is going on. (It is not really a
> problem, because in spite of the message everything seems to work.)
[snip]
> In human language: The Debian 2.0.34 configured the serial support as a
> module, whereas I included it into the 2.0.36 kernel itself. It seems
> that, even when the serial support is included into the kernel,
> 'somebody' still wants to access it as a module, but I can't find who,
> where and why.
Serial ports are on char-major-4; see "ls -l /dev/ttyS0":
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Feb 10 1998 /dev/ttyS0
major ^ ^^ minor
char-major-10 is misc devices such as psaux, watchdog, apm and nvram -
"cat /proc/misc" should list the ones you're using.
Presumably something is trying to access one of the misc devices. You
might be able to get some idea of what's happening with:
$ cd /dev
$ ls -ltur
[...]
crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialout 4, 65 Jan 3 10:32 ttyS1
crw------- 1 root sys 10, 1 Jan 3 11:53 psaux
prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 3 11:55 xconsole|
[...]
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 1 Jan 3 11:58 ptyp1
crw--w---- 1 carey tty 3, 1 Jan 3 11:58 ttyp1
crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 7 Jan 3 11:58 tty7
$
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