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Thanks alot, this post has been very helpful getting me up and going quickly. Now to dig in and do some learning!

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hi all,
i did a fresh install of slackware 9.1 and i'm getting the following error messages in
#dmesg output:

/sbin/modprobe -k -s scsi_hostadaptor failed...

does anyone know why?

mickey1980-

You are trying to load a module named scsi_hostadaptor, and it's not working. Odds are, you don't use SCSI, so this error really doesn't matter.

did you enable hotplug by chance? if so, you can add this to your hotplug blacklist so that it does not try to load the module on startup.

just add the module scsi_hostadaptor to /etc/hotplug/blacklist

i had to do this for the b44 module for my nic. Im using the bcm4400 module but slack was trying to load both and i was getting swamped with errors on the b44 module.. added it to the blacklist file and poof errors gone!

*cough* bump *cough* ...oh did I do that? hehehe

Quote:

Originally posted by Systematic
did you enable hotplug by chance? if so, you can add this to your hotplug blacklist so that it does not try to load the module on startup.

just add the module scsi_hostadaptor to /etc/hotplug/blacklist

I still think that not using the hotplug script at all is better, the only advantage it has is to detect your modules by default. When you know what those are (lsmod) then you just put them in your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and disable hotplug. This will be also a little bit faster for startup.

Shilo

You said if there was anything to add that might be helpful to let you know so.....

I am not sure what I did but I started getting this error

Failed to start SSH server : Starting sshd:@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Permissions 0775 for '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key' are too open. It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. This private key will be ignored. bad permissions: ignore key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Permissions 0775 for '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key' are too open. It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. This private key will be ignored. bad permissions: ignore key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Permissions 0775 for '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key' are too open. It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. This private key will be ignored. bad permissions: ignore key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting. [FAILED]

After doing a search I found out to fix this you just have to type

chmod 600 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
chmod 600 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

this will set your key files to the proper setting once again and then you can...

/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd stop
/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start

Anyway, if this helps anyone out then great. I was probably messing with something I shouldn't have but hey I learned something and hopefully someone else will benefit from this.

Drakeuser-

Sweet. Glad you got it worked out. I haven't messed around with the permissions too much, so here is a listing from mine to show what (I believe) is the default.

Code:

shilo@shilo:~$ ls -l /etc/ssh

total 144

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 111892 2004-02-28 06:59 moduli

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1159 2003-09-23 11:14 ssh_config

-rw-------  1 root root    668 2004-04-06 22:28 ssh_host_dsa_key

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    602 2004-04-06 22:28 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub

-rw-------  1 root root    527 2004-04-06 22:28 ssh_host_key

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    331 2004-04-06 22:28 ssh_host_key.pub

-rw-------  1 root root    887 2004-04-06 22:28 ssh_host_rsa_key

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    222 2004-04-06 22:28 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2552 2004-05-15 19:11 sshd_config

Thanks for all the bumps, too.

Hi All, thanks for the reply to my message regarding the scsi_hostadapter error...

Justin, you mention that it's better not to use hotplug at all, however i was not ablt to detect
my Alcatel USB modem attached to the usb port if i do not use hotplug...

Is there another way to get around it? Thks again for the advice :)

mickey

Hi All,

So i did a #lsmod, get a list of modules that i need, edited my rc.modules and then #chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug
and finally i did a reboot.

however #dmesg still shows the same error:
"kmod: /sbin/modprobe -k -s scsi_hostadaptor failed...."

the only scsi related module that is loaded is ide-scsi. this is required for my cd-rw to work... anyway i tried not to load this module, so i commented that line in my rc.module file and did a reboot

as expected, the cd-rw didn't work anymore but wat's worst is that the same error messages are still there.

could this be due to the modules that are precomplied into the kernel itself? i have tried both the bare.i and bareapci.i
modules but still gets the same error...hmm...

can anyone pls advice me on this?

mickey

hmmm... you may need to use the scsi.s kernel image for scsi emulation support for your cdrw. bare.i and bareapci.i won't work..

Could be that the SCSI module is trying to load from somewhere else in the startup scripts. Look through all of the files in /etc/rc.d/ to see if something else is attempting to load the module. I'd just take my time looking, though, as I don't believe that you have any problem besides the error message. One solution to your cd-rw issue is to upgrade to kernel 2.6.xx. SCSI emulation is no longer required.