modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20021102.log Read-only file system
I'm getting the following error during the boot sequence, repeated many
times. It doesn't seem to cause any actual problems, but it's worrisome.
modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20021102.log Read-only
file system (or the current date in place of 22021102)
One thing I found through google seems to be applicable:
"I'm not sure why this problem is a show-stopper. Several installation
kernels were built without the unix.o module which is kind of
unfortunate. But this normally is just a hiccup, e.g." <snip>
I'm using woody with the binary 2.4.18 for i386 k6-2 kernel. Maybe someone
can tell me if to fix the problem I have to download the kernel source and
compile and/or net-pf-10 (see below), before I spend the time trying it.
Would it be bad to just comment out net-pf-10 everywhere it occurs in /etc?
Also, this seems to be reported as bug# 143074 as a minor kernel bug. Would
it be useful for me to post my experience as a follow-up to that bug, as my
experience is somewhat different?
The file /var/log/ksymoops/20021102.log is actually created and contains
lines like
20021102 000247 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1
20021102 000247 probe ended
20021102 000436 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1
20021102 000436 probe ended
20021102 000436 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1
20021102 000436 probe ended
20021102 000443 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1
20021102 000443 probe ended
repeated many times (1032 lines total!)
Some other info you probably don't need, just so show what else is in
ksymoops and prove that my /var is writeable:
/var/log/ksymoops contains a bunch of other files as well:
bash-2.05a$ dir /var/log/ksymoops/20021102* | more
gives a bunch of files like
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1484 Nov 2 14:52
/var/log/ksymoops/20021102145202.modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65762 Nov 2 14:52
/var/log/ksymoops/20021102145259.ksyms
all with the .modules or .ksyms extensions, all rw for root.
My /var is just a subdirectory of /, which is mounted as:
/dev/hdb2 on / type ext3 (rw,usrquota,errors=remount-ro)
The directories /var, /var/log, and /var/log/ksymoops are in fact writeable
bash-2.05a$ dir /var/log/ksymoops/ | more
total 3144
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 24576 Nov 2 14:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 2 01:15 ..
bash-2.05a$ dir /var/log | more
total 3280
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 2 01:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 20 22:28 ..
bash-2.05a$ dir /var | more
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 20 22:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Nov 2 14:02 ..
(all files cut from listings)
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