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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre8 i686; Nav) Description of problem: Running "dd if=<dev>" as user, when <dev>'s driver modules aren't loaded, is supposed to autoload those modules. RedHat 7.3 fails to do so. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 0. Assume the CDROM is /dev/hdc. 1. As root, /sbin/rmmod the ide-cd and cdrom modules. 2. As user, dd if=/dev/hdc bs=4k count=1 of=/dev/null Actual Results: dd's open() of /dec/hdc in step 2 failed, and modprobe failed to insmod the ide-cd and cdrom modules. Expected Results: The ide-cd and cdrom modules should have autoloaded, and step 2's dd command should have succeeded. Additional info: There are several other access methods that _do_ correctly trigger the autoload: 3a. perform step 2 as root 3b. (as user) tar tvf /dev/hdc -- tar won't find an archive, but the modules load correctly 3c. dd bs=4k count=1 of=/dev/null < /dev/hdc regular open() and fopen() do work, just not in dd :-( This problem is new in RedHat 7.3. It causes problems for those of us that use custom kernels with modular floppy driver, and build test kernels with "make bzdisk" as regular users. Vanilla PC hardware. Vanilla RH7.3 install. RH7.2 worked.
Looks like either a config problem (are the right aliases in /etc/modules.conf?) or a kmod bug
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