Re: insmod Stall

Tommy Reynolds wrote:

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:05:54 +0000, W. Watson wrote:


I'm debugging a script that uses insmod to load a set of about 8 modules. It hangs my machine completely. It requires a reboot via power down/up. I decided I could do this one by one to find the culprit. My first attempt, /sbin/insmod rtl.o hung the machine again. I'm definitely not a kernel guy or a module guy. What would be a good way to determine what's ailing the insmod?


Doesn't sound like a kernel problem to me. You may have a bad disk
or memory problem, though. Google for memtest86 as a starter. Then
you may need to "fsck -c" the filesystems one by one to check the
disks.

HTH
It's possible that you might be right, but this problem has plagued me in attempts to start a specific application each time I've rebuilt the kernel. I've rebuilt it 4-5 times via a standard manual procedure to get the app working. However, on another machine, much newer by the way, with the same app and a kernel I built, the app starts right up. The problem was there before I ever had the fsck problem. It always fails in the script with a hang, or, as I now know, just doing the insmod above.


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