Bug 128593

Summary:	Modules which are not relevant for my system shouldn be loaded
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	stefan.fent
Version:	Alpha 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Michael Stather 2005-10-15 10:41:58 UTC

I see that some moduleswhich are not relevant for my (desktop) system like
PCMCIA or irq_balancer are loaded, and always fail. IMHO only the module which
are supported on the current system shouldn be loaded.

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-10-17 09:20:04 UTC

Is in your last sentence the word `not' missed after `are'?

Comment 6 Michael Gross 2005-10-17 13:25:08 UTC

We need some more information here... please attach the output of hwinfo, the outout auf dmesg and the last 500 lines of your syslog. Are we talking about the PCMCIA- and irc_balancer-modules only or are there other not-required modules loaded?

Comment 7 Michael Stather 2005-10-17 21:50:42 UTC

I mean especially these two modules which are missing the appropriate hardware.
 Do you need the logs anyway?

Comment 8 Michael Gross 2005-10-18 14:29:07 UTC

I think it would be at least helpful for tracing this problem, so please provide them.

Comment 9 Michael Stather 2005-10-18 16:36:22 UTC

First I wanted to re-enable the modules before submitting the logs.
But I didn´t see neither irq_balancer nor pcmcia in the list of services.

Comment 12 Christian Zoz 2005-10-19 13:56:53 UTC

Modules are loaded on different ways:
- in initrd, configured /etc/sysconfig/kernel:INITRD_MODULES
- from boot.loadmodules configured in 
  /etc/sysconfig/kernel:MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT=""
- from udev, configurable in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-* and  
  /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Udev loads only modules for existing devices.
  See /usr/share/doc/packages/udev/README.Logging how to debug this
- from some boot scripts: grep -l modprobe /etc/init.d/*
- via aliases in modprobe.conf

At first we need the full list of modules on this system and the list of modules that should not be there. Also attach output of 'hwinfo' and 'chkconfig'.

And the most important question: Do these modules cause any trouble or is this just a cosmetic issue?

Comment 13 Michael Stather 2005-10-19 15:22:09 UTC

Sorry if this was confusing, but I don´t mean the kernel modules but the "services" started by init.
I thought I was right with the term "module" because someone asked me about "icq_balancer" and "pcmcia" here which are services.
This is not a major thing it´s just that some services fail every time because the hardware isn´t present. And I don´t know why I can´t reenable "icq_balancer" anymore, perhaps this has changed in 10.1. If yes then I think this could be closed.

Comment 14 Christian Zoz 2005-10-20 13:13:06 UTC

To avoid further misunderstanding: service means 'daemon, which is started from a init script'

I don't know service irq_balancer. And service pcmcia has gone since 10.0.
Send us the output of 'chkconfig' on your system, and tell us which services are marked 'on' but need no to started.

Comment 15 Michael Stather 2005-10-20 13:30:55 UTC

Then IRQ_balancer isn´t present on new versions either. It was present with 9.3 and did only something on SMP systems. And if PCMCIA is gone too I can´t think of more daemons.
Sorry I think you can close this bug.

Comment 16 Christian Zoz 2005-10-20 13:42:52 UTC

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