modprob is freezing the system
Hello,
I am new to Debian, just converted from SuSE 8.2.
I am using the testing installation (50MB Business-Card).
It works great, but I have still a small problem:
Sometimes, ten minutes to a few hours after boot-up, the computer
becomes very slow for a few minutes (i.e. mousepointer movement,
scrolling...). If I open a shell and enter command top, I can
see that modprobe is running and consumes 97% of cpu-power.
In the first days after installation of debian-testing, this
slowing down of my computer occurs very often, now two weeks
later it occurs only randomly, but it is still unpleasant.
Currently I don't know why modprobe is running at times more than
10 minutes after boot-up, when I am using only ordinary programs
like KMail or Konqueror.
My question:
- why is modprobe running
- how can I see which modules modprobe tries to load
- how can I prevent modprobe from nearly freezing my system
I was not able to find a definitiv answer using google!
Here is the tail of /var/log/syslog: I know that there is no
LaserMate and no SoundBlaster connected to my computer, but I
don't know if these modules are the source of my problems. Just
a guess!
ICAS8:/home/salewski# tail -n16 /var/log/syslog
Jun 5 13:50:25 localhost kernel: sbpcd-0 [04]: No drive found.
Jun 5 13:50:25 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sbpcd
(/lib/modules/2.6.5-1-k7/kernel/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.ko):
Input/output error
Jun 5 13:50:25 localhost kernel: sbpcd-0 [01]: sbpcd.c v4.63
Andrew J. Kroll <ag784@freenet.buffalo.edu> Wed Jul 26 04:24:10
EDT 2000
Jun 5 13:50:25 localhost kernel: sbpcd-0 [02]: Scanning 0x340
(LaserMate)...
Jun 5 13:50:38 localhost kernel: via_audio: ignoring drain
playback error -11
Jun 5 13:50:57 localhost kernel: sbpcd-0 [03]: Scanning 0x340
(SoundBlaster)...
Jun 5 13:51:30 localhost kernel: sbpcd-0 [04]: No drive found.
Jun 5 13:51:30 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sbpcd
(/lib/modules/2.6.5-1-k7/kernel/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.ko):
Input/output error
Jun 5 13:58:20 localhost kernel: via_audio: ignoring drain
playback error -11
Jun 5 14:00:22 localhost identd[1864]: started
Jun 5 14:00:59 localhost kernel: via_audio: ignoring drain
playback error -11
Jun 5 14:03:06 localhost kernel: via_audio: ignoring drain
playback error -11
Jun 5 14:17:02 localhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[1884]: (root) CMD
( run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 5 14:18:39 localhost kernel: via_audio: ignoring drain
playback error -11
Jun 5 14:24:39 localhost kernel: via_audio: ignoring drain
playback error -11
Jun 5 14:26:19 localhost kernel: via_audio: ignoring drain
playback error -11
ICAS8:/home/salewski#
Best regards
Stefan Saleswski
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