Something like this absolutely requires that you file a support incident with SUSE. They're the only ones that are going to be able to figure out why things are segfaulting and provided a solution that they'll support.
You could try running an "rpm -V" command against the RPMs that contain both the modprobe and the kernel module you're trying to load. That would at least tell you if the command or the module have been somehow corrupted. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Stewart Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Device Mapper error at boot Hello all. I have a problem related to the device mapper. I am running SLES 9 with SP2 on a z890 on VM. In one of my images I am getting an error at boot when the system tries to activate the device mapper. The exact message is: Activating device mapper... /etc/init.d/boot.d/S06boot.device-mapper: line 43: 4777 Segmentation fault modprobe dm-mod device-mapper kernel module not loaded: can't create /dev/mapper/control. ..failed After that the system comes up but with errors and as a very limited system (i.e. no network, unreadable output with commands such as ls). I have determined that I am getting a segmentation fault when the system tries to run modprobe dm-mod but I don't know why. I get a segmentation fault when I try to run modprobe dm-mod from the command line. The only thing that happened before crash was I got an error when trying to start Software AG's Natural application saying it could not create semephore semkey = 61115111. I rebooted and I was hosed. I am not sure if that has anything to do with the problem, but it was the only thing that happened before the crash. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for any help. Ryan Stewart ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
