Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jul 8 14:45:09 eyry modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 > > The char device with major number 6 if the printer. Do you have one? > Stopping the printer daemon helped somewhat. No, I don't have > a printer, although there's a couple on the network and a deskwriter [...] > 95 ? S 0:01 /sbin/kerneld > 11167 ? S 0:00 \_ modprobe -k -s char-major-6
Something, somewhere, is repeatedly trying to open the printer device (/dev/lp*), hence the invocation of modprobe by kerneld. It's unusual for anything other than lpd to open /dev/lp*, so I would look there. You say that you have no local printer, but there are a couple of network printers you use - is there any chance that your /etc/printcap contains a definition of a local printer? If so, then accidentally sending a job to that queue would make lpd start trying to open the printer port to print the data. It may be that the printer software comes with a local queue configured by default (I don't know - I haven't un-tar'ed Debian 1.3 yet). If so, you should probably de-configure the local queue from /etc/printcap. Allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
