RE: char-major-6

[Lehel Bernadt <blehel@kabelkon.ro>]

On 28-Jul-2000 Erik Mathisen wrote:
> I keep getting this stupid error in my syslog:
> 
> modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6
> 
> now i searched my system, I dont have that module, how do I get this
> error to stop?  It puts 2 or 3 entries in the log a minute.
> 
> Any help would greatly be appreciated,
> 
> Erik

I've had the same problem, but with block-major-8 (scsi-disk). Since I don't
have scsi devices, I appended an "alias block-major-8 off" to
/etc/modutils/aliases and ran update-modules. After that I didn't get the
message anymore.