Re: 2.1.xx and 2.2.0pre1 trouble

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:32:15 +0300 (MSK)


29-Dec-98 15:03 you wrote:
> Hi all.

> After some unhappy tries of upgrade my kernel, i've decided to post this
> here.

> I've downloaded 2.1.131 last week (or one before) and put this on my
> 2.0.36, quite working well. After the kernel compilation and changed
> modutils to 2.1.121, the lilo configured to the new kernel, i've do the
> restart. For my surprise, this is the output of the restart:

> Dec 29 14:52:10 modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1
> Dec 29 14:52:10 modprobe: Out of file handle
> request_module[net-pf-1]: fork failed, errno 11

> and this repeats forever... now with the 2.2.0pre1...

> Is there some special thing to do?

You must upgrade your /etc/conf.modules ! net-pf-1 is unix but if you have
even basic networking compiled as module I bet that there are a lot of other
required strings...

P.S. BTW someone could say me where I can find "litest and greatest" sample
conf.modules for latest kernels ?

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