Re: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 ?

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk> writes:

>> [23:32:47 /tmp]$ wc /var/log/syslog -l 1316 /var/log/syslog
>> [23:32:50 /tmp]$ grep "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6"
>> /var/log/syslog | wc -l 214 [23:32:53 /tmp]$

Shaul> Why 15% of my syslog is filled with the error message about
Shaul> that module? What does it do?

Colin> char-major-6 is an alias for the set of kernel character
Colin> devices on major number 6;
Colin> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt says that this is
Colin> parallel printer support, so presumably you've got a printer
Colin> daemon installed or something.

Shaul> I am using a kernel-image as is and have not compiled
Shaul> anything. Why is it all of a sudden gives me messages about it?
Shaul> Is it a bug in some package? How can I fix it?

Colin> That kernel-image package *does* have parallel printer support
Colin> enabled as a module. Have you modified anything in
Colin> /etc/modutils/ in any way?

I don't think so.  Rather, the lp module is loaded at boot time, as it
is listed in /etc/modules.  That would be the place to check for
modifications, and the boot script that reads it which is
/etc/init.d/modutils.

If Shaul wants the driver loaded the non-Debian way, on demand, he
needs to add this line to /etc/modutils/aliases:

alias char-major-6 lp

then run update-modules.

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