Bug 14266

Summary: message from modprobe : insmod (null) failed
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Nicolas CROISET <ncroiset>
Component: modutilsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Description Nicolas CROISET 2000-07-19 05:11:25 UTC 
Hello,

I have two ppp links. When one of these fail, there is an automatic relaunch. This launch do the same thing when I start the machine.

Extract from /var/log/messages

Jul 18 09:04:13 ftclient1 pppd[951]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Jul 18 09:04:13 ftclient1 pppd[951]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 18 09:04:13 ftclient1 pppd[951]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttya0
Jul 18 09:04:13 ftclient1 adsl1: pptp1 startup succeeded
Jul 18 09:04:31 ftclient1 pppd[951]: Remote message: Login ok
Jul 18 09:04:31 ftclient1 pppd[951]: local  IP address XXX.251.XX.XXX
Jul 18 09:04:31 ftclient1 pppd[951]: remote IP address XXX.251.XX.1
Jul 18 13:07:34 ftclient1 modprobe: modprobe: insmod (null) failed             <--------------
Jul 18 14:21:12 ftclient1 pppd[700]: Terminating on signal 15.

When I do an lsmod :
Module                  Size  Used by
lockd                  30344   1  (autoclean)
sunrpc                 52132   1  (autoclean) [lockd]
3c59x                  18980   2  (autoclean)
acquirewdt              1116   1
softdog                 1316   0  (unused)
ppp                    19500   4
slip                    7644   0  (unused)
slhc                    4312   0  [ppp slip]

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in /etc/conf.modules

alias eth0 3c59x
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

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in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

insmod slhc
insmod slip
insmod ppp

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Just for a note it was the same problem when I have no rc.modules file, it was just a test if I load on startup ppp modules.

Thanks

Just for note, I have a crash (Kernel panic) of the machine at 4:00AM when I have this message.

Perhaps there is a link with this bug I declare a few days ago : 13773
Comment 1 Nicolas CROISET 2000-09-26 17:22:21 UTC 
I had update with this version : modutils-2.3.14-2, and I have the same problem.

Sep 26 15:34:38 ftclient1 pppd[24721]: demand_script PPP plugin: script '/ft/bin/running.sh' done
Sep 26 15:47:40 ftclient1 modprobe: modprobe: insmod (null) failed
Sep 26 16:02:40 ftclient1 modprobe: modprobe: insmod (null) failed
Sep 26 16:17:50 ftclient1 modprobe: modprobe: insmod (null) failed
Sep 26 16:22:51 ftclient1 modprobe: modprobe: insmod (null) failed
Sep 26 16:27:44 ftclient1 modprobe: modprobe: insmod (null) failed
Sep 26 17:37:52 ftclient1 modprobe: modprobe: insmod (null) failed

Bye.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-07-06 22:52:06 UTC 
It sounds like a problem with the modules.dep file, in that it's trying
to load a module with no name.
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-23 20:21:49 UTC 
At this point, I don't think this is going to be fixed. We haven't seen this in
testing ppp here.