Re: systemd-modules-load inserting modules I didn't ask it to insert

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2015-12-26 09:14 +1300, martin f krafft wrote:

> Hello, and happy holidays to all of you.

Happy holidays from me as well.

> I found several of my systems to report this:
>
>   systemd-modules-load[136]: Inserted module 'ipmi_devintf'
>   systemd-modules-load[136]: Inserted module 'ipmi_poweroff'
>   systemd-modules-load[136]: Failed to insert 'ipmi_si': No such device
>   systemd-modules-load[136]: Inserted module 'ipmi_watchdog'
>
> and consequently, the systems appear degraded, e.g.:
>
>   root@domine:/home/madduck# systemctl --state=failed
>     UNIT                         LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION
>   ● systemd-modules-load.service loaded failed failed Load Kernel Modules
>
> Looking at the manpage(s), the list of (static) modules to load
> comes from (a) the kernel command line, and (b) the
> modules-load.d/*.conf files in /lib, /run, and /etc.
>
> However, on none of my systems are any of the IPMI modules
> specified:
>
>   # grep ipmi /proc/cmdline /*/modules-load.d/*.conf /etc/modules /etc/initramfs-tools/modules || echo none found
>   none found

You forgot /usr/lib/modules-load.d/*.conf.

> So, where is systemd getting the idea from that it ought to load
> these modules?

Apparently from /usr/lib/modules-load.d/ipmievd.conf shipped in Jessie's
ipmitool package: https://bugs.debian.org/766418.

Cheers,
       Sven