Re: kmod problem returned

Edward S. Marshall (emarshal@logic.net)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 21:42:57 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Spirilis wrote:
> > <root>:/root# kmod: waitpid(1748,NULL,0) failed, returning -512.
> > Plus a kmod error when I started lpd, JUST like the previous incident a week or
> > two ago... a patch was posted but apparantly wasn't assimilated into the
> > mainstream kernel.
>
> I've been getting this since moving to devfs. It seems to occur when the
> ppp module is unloaded.

And, just to follow up to my own post: when this happens (ie. when the
message appears), I end up with a zombied modprobe process hanging around.

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