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Re: Kernel 2.5 and devfsd



On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:41:59 +0100
Mark Shuttleworth <mark@hbd.com> wrote:

> I'm using Debian Unstable. Have built kernel 2.5.68 with devfs
> built-in and configured to mount /dev on boot, and have installed
> DevFSD. I also put devpts into fstab under /dev/pts.
> 
> At boot time I get lots of errors like 'FATAL: module /dev/rtc not
> found'.
> 
> I have been able to get rid of most of them by putting relevant kernel
> modules into my /etc/modules file, but surely this is unnecessary? Am
> I missing something else?

I don't have devfsd on my current system, so I may be misremembering,
but there should be a setting in /etc/devfsd.conf that tells devfsd
whether or not it should auto-load modules.  Could be that devfsd is
trying to load modules when it's not supposed to, so try turning that
option off.

--Todd



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