Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-05 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Thanasis! On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:50:25PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: scripsit Roberto Sanchez: I'm not sure. Do you have discover or kudzu installed (both are hardware autodetectors that may try loading/unloading modules to figure out what you have. Just a thought. Nope; neither is

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Monique Y. Herman: > Hrm. Okay, well, I don't know what AFS is (though now I'm thinking I > should find out), and I don't use sound at the moment, so I probably > just have to worry about the "couple others" =P AFS is a distributed file system. My uni uses it (among other things) to a

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 23:15 GMT, Thanasis Kinias penned: > scripsit Monique Y. Herman: >> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 21:46 GMT, Thanasis Kinias penned: > >> > OK, I recompiled and enabled that... (Aside: Lots of possible >> > gotchas switching to 2.6...) >> >> Please elaborate! > > Well, I didn't

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Roberto Sanchez: > I'm not sure. Do you have discover or kudzu installed (both are > hardware autodetectors that may try loading/unloading modules to > figure out what you have. Just a thought. Nope; neither is installed. This is a fairly new net install with no tasksel stuff, either

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Monique Y. Herman: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 21:46 GMT, Thanasis Kinias penned: > > OK, I recompiled and enabled that... (Aside: Lots of possible > > gotchas switching to 2.6...) > > Please elaborate! Well, I didn't mean to be melodramatic ;) The biggest one for me is that OpenAFS is

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Thanasis Kinias wrote: scripsit Roberto Sanchez: They are unsafe to unload because it is possible that unloading them could cause very serious problems. To unload those, you must have enabled CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD (for Forced Module Unloading): OK, now I'm confused. Why, then, would the k

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 21:46 GMT, Thanasis Kinias penned: > scripsit Roberto Sanchez: > >> Module unloading *must* be specifically enabled in 2.6 kernels. >> Otherwise, you can only load. > > OK, I recompiled and enabled that... (Aside: Lots of possible > gotchas switching to 2.6...) Please e

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Roberto Sanchez: > They are unsafe to unload because it is possible that unloading them > could cause very serious problems. To unload those, you must have > enabled CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD (for Forced Module Unloading): OK, now I'm confused. Why, then, would the kernel be attempting

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Thanasis Kinias wrote: scripsit Roberto Sanchez: Module unloading *must* be specifically enabled in 2.6 kernels. Otherwise, you can only load. OK, I recompiled and enabled that... (Aside: Lots of possible gotchas switching to 2.6...) ...and I can now unload _some_ but not all modules. Speci

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-04 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Roberto Sanchez: > Module unloading *must* be specifically enabled in 2.6 kernels. > Otherwise, you can only load. OK, I recompiled and enabled that... (Aside: Lots of possible gotchas switching to 2.6...) ...and I can now unload _some_ but not all modules. Specifically, ide_probe_m

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-03 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Andrew Schulman: > Are you using the updated modutils for 2.6? > > apt-get install module-init-tools $ apt-cache policy module-init-tools module-init-tools: Installés : 0.9.15-pre3-2 Candidat : 0.9.15-pre3-2 Table de version : *** 0.9.15-pre3-2 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Schulman wrote: > I'm using a 2.6 kernel I compiled from the Debian source package, and > encountering some odd behaviour. I cannot unload modules--I get: > > Module foo cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in > include/linux/module.h:483 > > This results in having a lot of

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:44:48 -0700, Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Also, as a side issue I'm not seeing the vaunted desktop performance > increases I keep hearing about. On a 2.6 GHz P-IV system (512 MB > RAM), 2.6 seems if anything a bit more sluggis

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm using a 2.6 kernel I compiled from the Debian source package, and > encountering some odd behaviour. I cannot unload modules--I get: > > Module foo cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in > include/linux/module.h:483 > > This results in having a lot of cruft in the kernel. Is this

2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-01 Thread Thanasis Kinias
Greetings, I'm using a 2.6 kernel I compiled from the Debian source package, and encountering some odd behaviour. I cannot unload modules--I get: Module foo cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in include/linux/module.h:483 This results in having a lot of cruft in the kernel. Is this