Re: insmod Stall

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
.

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