I installed kernel 2.6.10 on one of my Slackware 10.1 boxes last night from CD #2 based on this link: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...Install_disc_2


Everything *seems* to work fine, except I get the following two errors being logged every time I boot:


Apr 13 23:48:02 meteora modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehp (/lib/modules/2.6.10/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.ko): Operation not permitted
Apr 13 23:48:02 meteora modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting shpchp (/lib/modules/2.6.10/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko): Operation not permitted


If I try to add the modules with modprobe, I get the same error.

bash-3.00# modprobe -v pciehp
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.10/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.ko
FATAL: Error inserting pciehp (/lib/modules/2.6.10/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.ko): Operation not permitted
bash-3.00# modprobe -v shpchp
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.10/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko
FATAL: Error inserting shpchp (/lib/modules/2.6.10/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko): Operation not permitted
bash-3.00#


Are these two error messages anything I need to worry about?

If not, is there an easy way to get rid of them? (I'd rather not recompile the kernel if I don't have to.)


Any advice / info would be greatly appreciated.

I think your kernel doesn't support module inserting (insmod). But you could try to load them manual way with modrobe without inserting (don't know if it works). If you don't need them, uncomment them in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.

They are not in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules -- or at least I cannot find any reference to them.

There is not anything relating to them in /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modules.conf either.

Very strange.

I have not even been able to find what these two modules are for.

The 2.6 kernel requires module-init-tools and not modutils. Run this command to see what version of modprobe you have installed:

$ /sbin/modprobe --version

The version info should have "module-init-tools" in it. If it does not, you will need to install it. Please post the modprobe version info here.

Peace...

I have "module-init-tools version 3.1"

This should be confirmed. Go into the kernel source directory and run "make menuconfig" and look at the kernel module loading settings. Make sure the kernel is setup to support module loading.

Peace...

Menuconfig says it supports module loading.

While I was in it, I poked around a little and found those two modules. Menuconfig says that when in doubt, choose no (don't include) for both of them. So I decided to go ahead mark those as no and try recompiling the kernel.

It might be good experience for me. ??

Is it worth the effort for me to go through and mark *modules* that I know I won't ever use not to be compiled into the kernel? I've always read that modules don't add that much to the kernel unless they are loaded into it because they are needed -- but there are a LOT of modules there that I know we won't ever need. Is it worth the trouble to deselect them?

If I can sucessfully get the 2.6.10 kernel working on this box, I plan to try it on our production backup server. It's old -- a 300 Mhz P2 with 64MB RAM. That, I think, might do better if I trim the kernel down as much as I can.

Things built as modules do nothing except take up disk space, unless they are loaded.

Check out this page:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2432.html

Peace...

Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.

I've never done much with kernels before. I appreciate your help and advice.

Peace be to you, too.

Oh, and fantastic link!

Many thanks again.

Fear not! There is nothing fatal about this at all. To stop hotplug trying to load drivers it has no business trying to load (on this system, anyway) add the following three lines to the bottom of /etc/hotplug/blacklist

# Not loading on boot. Removed from sight
pciehp
shpchp
hw_random

Don't thank me, thank our great friend Google.

Glad that helped...

Peace...