Package: kmod Version: 8-2 Severity: normal Hello, While setting up a new VPS with Wheezy under a module-less kernel (everything compiled-in) I've noticed that kmod's modprobe silently returns 1 with no error message printed, no matter if you tell it to load or unload a module.
Of course, the expected behavior is to return a module not found error, like Squeeze's "old" modprobe did. After a bit more testing using a more "standard" Debian install (barebones system from current netinst with Debian standard kernel 3.2.0-3-686-pae) I've found out that this behavior is caused by lack of /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias.bin . If you rename this file on an out-of-the-box Wheezy system, modprobe will just return 1 without printing any warning message. This of course breaks scripts sniffing modprobe's output. (see Bug#684424 for example, which was my original problem.) Script started on Tue 14 Aug 2012 03:41:39 PM CEST root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# modprobe -V kmod version 8 root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# modprobe nonexistent FATAL: Module nonexistent not found. root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# modprobe -r nonexistent FATAL: Module nonexistent not found. root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# mv modules.alias.bin modules.alias.bin.q root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# modprobe nonexistent root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# modprobe -r nonexistent root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# mv modules.alias.bin.q modules.alias.bin root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# modprobe nonexistent FATAL: Module nonexistent not found. root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# modprobe -r nonexistent FATAL: Module nonexistent not found. root@debtestvm:/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-686-pae# exit Script done on Tue 14 Aug 2012 03:42:45 PM CEST Regards, -- Wojciech -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.4.2-linode44 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kmod depends on: ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libkmod2 8-2 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7 kmod recommends no packages. kmod suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
