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On 23 April 2015 00:43:53 CEST, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On 04/22/2015 12:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> What mystifies me is how those three kernel modules managed to get |
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>>> loaded while all the others didn't. (It's the same three modules |
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>every |
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>>> time, BTW.) |
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>>> I grepped through /etc for the names of those modules, thinking |
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>maybe |
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>>> I listed them in modprobe.conf.d sometime in the past, but no, those |
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>>> modules are not listed anywhere in /etc, nor are any of the others |
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>>> listed either. |
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>> Try grepping /lib/udev for the names of those modules. |
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>Thanks Rich and Canek (and a big kiss to Volker, too) for your replies. |
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>I just spotted this question about a warning that I'm now seeing from |
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>my "bad" machine, but sadly there are no replies: |
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>https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-996544-start-0.html |
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>The lesson seems to be that "big" updates are risky, and I should stop |
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>wasting my time on this particular big update and start from a newer |
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>version of amd64. |
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Maybe. There are people on this list who succesfully update servers every few years... |
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Do you get that error also after loading all the modules by hand? |
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>I was startled just now by a comment my from my wife: "I can't believe |
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>how much time you've wasted on your silly linux. That computer is too |
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>old to run linux -- you should just throw it out and buy a new one." |
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Makes me wonder about 2 things: |
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1) How old is that machine? |
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2) What does your wife do for a living? |
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>Guys, listen up: when your wife suddenly advises you to treat yourself |
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>to a new toy -- be afraid -- be very afraid. I'm afraid she's about to |
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>say something else that will postpone my upcoming retirement for a long |
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>time :( |
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What would she say that would postpone your retirement? |
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If my wife tells me to buy a new toy, I would go out and get one. She can't really complain if I do what she tells me.... :) |
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Joost |
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