Bug 12143

Summary: shm: no such module
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Component: modutilsAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description Hans de Goede 2000-06-12 18:39:24 UTC
The attemp to mount /var/shm causes modprobe to complain that there is no
shm module (on 2.2.x kernels), since shm will be hard compiled into 2.4
afaik, i suggest adding "alias shm off" to /etc/conf.modules, so that new
users won't be scared by this message.

On a related note the mounting of /var/shm at this point also causes an
error that modules.dep doesn't exist on the first boot after a new kernel
install, so maybe do this mount after runnign depmod, before that shm is
probably not needed anyways.

Comment 1 Pekka Savola 2000-06-22 10:05:38 UTC
This also happens with beta2.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-06 20:51:11 UTC
Should be fixed as of beta3.