I recently installed the Aureal soundcard drivers from Sourceforge.
Do you think that is the problem?
Is there a way to cure it short of reinstallation?
Please remind me - what are tty0 and ttys3?
Thank you.
Revenant.
civileme wrote:
> On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:24, you wrote:
> > My Mandrake 7.2 is configured to boot graphically. It works well until
> > the point where you would normally enter your login and password.
<SNIP>
> > Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> > Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> > Dec 27 18:57:27 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> > char-major-4
> > Dec 27 18:57:28 revenant last message repeated 67 times
> > Dec 27 18:57:28 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> > char-major-180
> file:/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.17/devices.txt
>
> says char-major-4 minor 0-63 are your /dev/tty0, 1, ....
> the next numbers are for /dev/ttys0-/dev/ttys3 Total is 67.
>
> So you have no launch pad for your Graphical login.
>
> file:/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/modules.dep has nothing labeled 'char',
> so it should not be looking for this as a module.
>
> My friend, it is time to experiment with replacing memory or to take
> a hard look at your HDD. The kernel is showing some damage here,
> trying to load as a module what is built-in (no modular options in a
> kernel compilation).
>
> A temporary cure is reinstallation, but this sort of behavior means
> serious trouble, most likely with hardware.
>
> rgrep -r -i "modprobe char" /etc
>
> showed nothing, so Mandrake initscripts and /etc/modules.conf are not
> causing this behavior. Did you install anything recently, like right
> before this happened? If not, look at your hardware.
>
> Civileme
>
> char
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