On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:17 PM, walt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just did a huge update on an older ~amd64 machine, and now only > three out of a dozen or so kernel modules load during bootup, which > leaves a lot of hardware in an unusable state. > > What mystifies me is how those three kernel modules managed to get > loaded while all the others didn't. (It's the same three modules every > time, BTW.) > > I grepped through /etc for the names of those modules, thinking maybe > I listed them in modprobe.conf.d sometime in the past, but no, those > modules are not listed anywhere in /etc, nor are any of the others > listed either. > > I can modprobe all of the unloaded modules manually after bootup, > which shows that all of the modules exist and load without error, > so the problem lies elsewhere, but where? > > Any clues would be most welcome.
If you are using systemd, there are a few modules that it always loads (ipv6, autofs4, stuff like that). Everything else is loaded automatically, by udevm, as-needed. My guess (but I could be wrong); you are using an initramfs, and didn't included the modules in it. In that case, the modules are not loaded because they are not available. I have no idea if OpenRC tries to load modules. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
