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Description of problem:
When a (non-RHEL) non-modular kernel is booted, "service --status-all" yields an error:

# service --status-all
libkmod: kmod_module_new_from_loaded: could not open /proc/modules: No such file or directory
Error: could not get list of modules: No such file or directory
netconsole module not loaded
Configured devices:
lo eth0
Currently active devices:
lo eth0


Source of the problem is in /etc/rc.d/init.d/netconsole, line 110, function status(): lsmod is executed without checking if /proc/modules exists beforehand.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot a non-modular kernel
2. # service --status-all
3.

Actual results:
Error

Expected results:
no Error

Additional info:

Created attachment 922237 [details]
adds a check for /proc/modules before the lsmod invocation in status()

minimal patch

At beginning I must note that we do not support non-RHEL kernels.

And also there should be something like
+        else
+                echo $"/proc/modules does not exists"
+                RETVAL=3

because otherwise you will get false return value.


But the main reason why I want to close this as notabug is that it yields that there is an error because there is one.