I've discovered today that keepalived is actually trying to probe this module, but the command is failing:
lvs1:~# while ! ps auxwwwwwwwwwwwwwf | grep -v grep | grep -C3 modprobe ; do true; done root 1145 1.1 0.2 16396 724 ? Ss 13:41 0:03 /usr/sbin/keepalived root 1259 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? R 13:47 0:00 \_ [keepalived] root 1266 0.0 0.2 16396 680 ? S 13:47 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/keepalived root 1267 0.0 0.0 312 136 ? R 13:47 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- ip_vs root 1181 0.0 0.4 22420 1040 ? Ss 13:41 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 1357 0.0 0.2 10208 688 ? Ss 13:41 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 2467 0.6 23.0 133076 57852 ? Ss 13:42 0:01 /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/puppet agent -w 5 lvs1:~# /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- ip_vs /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'k' Usage: /sbin/modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-d <dirname> ] [-n] [-i] [-q] [-b] [-o <modname>] [ --dump-modversions ] <modname> [parameters...] /sbin/modprobe -r [-n] [-i] [-v] <modulename> ... /sbin/modprobe -l -t <dirname> [ -a <modulename> ...] lvs1:~# modprobe ip_vs lvs1:~# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org