Hi,

I'm really grasping at straws here, hoping that someone could answer my question fairly quickly.

I wrote a module (irrelevant as to what it does) and inserted it into the kernel. Worked fine, but upon running a program that used it, received a seg fault. Now I am unable to remove the module because the kernel still thinks its in use. I can't make changes to the module because I cannot insert the new one.

If anyone knows how to remove a module in a case like this, please let me know!! Thanks!

By the way, in case it's relevant information, I'm working with Red Hat v. 2.4.20.

You can't reboot because it's someone else's server or something?

lol. exactly what I was thinking. unless you have it autoloading the module then just reboot.

Sorry about that, forgot to mention that I was remotely connected via telnet. I was just wondering if there was any other way to do it than to reboot, but I guess there wasn't. (Other than renaming the module and trying again).

Thanks anyway, I fixed the problem today.

welcome, glad to see it went well.
If you ever need to reboot from remote you can -
shutdown -h now
will shut it down but then you will have to wait until it reboots [run a constant ping on it to see when it comes back up].
There are rarely times when you will have to reboot tho - you are correct there.
Usuallt the modprobe -R the.module will remove it.