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apport-collect 1767172 and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'. If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'. This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767172 Title: Regression: /etc/modules checked against blacklist or it's really hard to load blacklisted watchdog modules when one really wants one Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Impossible / hard to force the system to load a watchdog module because it is blacklisted by the kernel auto-generated list of "watchdog" modules. /etc/modules used to "just work" before. e.g. bcm2835_wdt module on arm64 === Before systemd-modules-load, /etc/init.d/kmod would load modules directly with "modprobe" (and _not_ "modprobe -b"): load_module() { local module args module="$1" args="$2" if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then log_action_msg "Loading kernel module $module" modprobe $module $args || true else modprobe $module $args > /dev/null 2>&1 || true fi } However, under 18.04, systemd-modules-load will _ignore_ modules that are manually listed in /etc/modules and process them with the blacklist (the same as "modprobe -b" would). This means that it is not possible to manually load modules that are blacklisted (like watchdog modules): systemd-238/src/modules-load/modules-load.c: static int load_module(struct kmod_ctx *ctx, const char *m) { const int probe_flags = KMOD_PROBE_APPLY_BLACKLIST; ... default: err = kmod_module_probe_insert_module(mod, probe_flags, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL); if (err == 0) log_info("Inserted module '%s'", kmod_module_get_name(mod)); else if (err == KMOD_PROBE_APPLY_BLACKLIST) log_info("Module '%s' is blacklisted", kmod_module_get_name(mod)); Blacklists should _not_ be applied by systemd-modules-load. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1767172/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp