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Re: [PLUG] block-major-3 and binfmt-0000 'modules'...
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On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 11:25, Guillermo Moyna wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> First, thanks to all how provided pointers to my SSH problems. It was
> actually something else. One of the rpc daemons was not running, and
> aparently that made the ssh server a very unhappy camper...
>
> Now a question. I don't recall ever 'mounting' the CDROM on our
> cluster (paricularly after a kernel upgrade), and I tried the other
> day and it would not work (This little intro basically means "I have
> no idea when this started to happen..."). Looking into the log file,
> I found this two 'modprobe' error messages, one of which seems to be
> related:
>
> Oct 16 13:45:33 node0 modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0000
> Oct 16 15:43:45 node0 modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3
>
> What the heck are these things? I know binfmt has something to do
> with binary format of executables, and block-major-3 with block
> devices (hda, hdb, therefore the problem with the CDROM, I suspect).
> More importantly, how the heck do I fix'em?
>
> TIA,
>
> Guillermo
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Check your /etc/modules.conf file. 'man modules.conf' should tell you
how the file works. There should be a line that aliases block-major-3 to
a module.
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