Re: can't locate module char-major-5
I am not sure what it does, but if you look at the /etc/modules.conf
or the /etc/modutils/aliases you should find it there. comment it and
it should go away.
Once upon a time Jeff East (an972@freenet.carleton.ca) wrote:
> Well, since I upgraded from 2.1r2 to 2.2 (via apt-get
> dist-upgrade), I'm getting the following logged message everytime I open a
> new rxvt window:
>
> ---
> Jan 15 04:31:48 Tortuga modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> char-major-5
> ---
>
> I've done many Google.com searches, many others see the same thing, but I
> see *no* solutions. I've looked at devices.txt, and see that it could be
> referring to:
>
> ---
> 5 char Alternate TTY devices
> 0 = /dev/tty Current TTY device
> 1 = /dev/console System console
> 2 = /dev/ptmx PTY master multiplex
> 64 = /dev/cua0 Callout device for ttyS0
> ...
> 255 = /dev/cua191 Callout device for ttyS191
> ---
>
> But I'm still stumped as to what to do. I was running 2.1r2 under
> a 2.2.14 kernel without this. It popped up when I did a dist-upgrade to
> potato, same kernel. I compiled a 2.2.17 kernel (with 'enhanced rtc' to
> get rid of char-major-10-135 messages), and I still get this one.
>
> Any ideas?
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