Bug 13670 - modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4
Summary: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: modutils
Version: 7.1
Hardware: sparc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
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: 9783 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-07-10 22:23 UTC by Brent Nordquist
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-07-06 22:46:11 UTC
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Description Brent Nordquist 2000-07-10 22:23:16 UTC 
After an install of Winston Beta-3 on an Ultra5 (128MB, 8GB IDE disk), during boot I get:

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modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4
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Sorry, I don't remember the context lines; I'll fill this in tomorrow.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-11 05:02:12 UTC 
*** Bug 9783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-11 05:03:58 UTC 
IIRC, it's triyng to open a serial device that it can't tell
isn't there, so it tries to load a serial module, even though serial 
is compiled into the kernel.

We could alias char-major-4 to off, I suppose.
Comment 3 Brent Nordquist 2000-07-11 13:57:43 UTC 
FWIW, the context is just after "Checking for new hardware" (i.e., kudzu).  It 
prints twice.
Comment 4 Michael K. Johnson 2000-08-01 21:38:04 UTC 
This is really a modutils thing, and yes, we probably should alias
char-major-4 to off, since we're unlikely ever to make serial
modular -- that would interfere with serial console, among
other things.
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2001-07-06 22:45:22 UTC 
done in 2.4.6-1.
Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2001-07-06 22:46:07 UTC 
actually, nix that. marking as wontfix.
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