Hi All, Lately I've noticed a new problem, it seems that I'm unable to load a certain module in my system. as far as I'm aware, I didn't change anything (no new kernel, no new modules were loaded etc) this system is considered a stable system.
I've tried to Google for it, but I found only questions with no answers, and I've seen this error message for different modules. in my case, its the lirc_serial module which cannot load. doing a modprobe, results with the following error in dmesg: kobject_add failed for lirc_serial.0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. Call Trace: [<ffffffff802ef81d>] kobject_shadow_add+0x182/0x18d [<ffffffff80363974>] device_add+0xa1/0x726 [<ffffffff80367aaf>] platform_device_add+0xda/0x13f [<ffffffff882d102d>] :lirc_serial:init_module+0x2d/0x2f2 [<ffffffff882d1000>] :lirc_serial:init_module+0x0/0x2f2 [<ffffffff882d1000>] :lirc_serial:init_module+0x0/0x2f2 [<ffffffff80245869>] sys_init_module+0xad/0x168 [<ffffffff8020955e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 insmod /lib/modules/2.6.21.5/misc/lirc_serial.ko insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.21.5/misc/lirc_serial.ko': -1 File exists lsmod |grep lirc lirc_dev 18312 0 anyone has any idea how to debug this? Thanks, Ohad
