Re: how to see modprobe errors

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:04:57 +0000, Eben King wrote:

> Hi. I recently upgraded to a Debian variant. Under Redhat (where I was
> for several years), errors from a bogus modprobe would wind up in
> /var/log/messages. Where do they go now, if anywhere?
>
> See, I think I pooched /etc/mod{probe.d,utils}/alsa-base, and now module
> loading is all screwed up -- 8139too won't load automatically, neither
> will sd and usb-storage and ehci-hcd, etc. Once they're loaded, stuff
> works. Oh, I have to reinstall the nvidia driver at every boot too, but
> I think that's related.
>
> So I think I can diagnose the problem, if I can see the errors. Help?

Run "dmesg" and look at the output, you should see your modprobe error
messages there. Unless your distribution explicitly pipes them somewhere
else.

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