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aufgeist

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Registered: 2005-06-10

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no module loaded when booting

I installed a new program and added its daemon to rc.conf. But after reboot, the kernel modules disappeared, none of them loaded. I hurried to delete the daemon from rc.conf, however, no change happened. How should I do?

arch 0.7

T-Dawg

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Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: no module loaded when booting

I hurried to delete the daemon from rc.conf, however, no change happened.

You lost me on that.

When you add the daemons to rc.conf in the array() it tells the system to load that module during boot thats all.

To see if the module is running do:ls /var/run/daemons
But, you say it hasn't loaded. If the above yields no module, do: /etc/rc.d/nameofmodule start. The other options are stop and restart. Thats how you load daemons manually in arch.
If you get an error message doing the above it may just be a configuration file that needs attention.  To better help us, which daemon is it?

aufgeist

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Re: no module loaded when booting

perhaps I did not express myself clearly. Normally, the system will load many kernal modules ( I mean nic module, audio module and so on). Today I tried to install VMware GSX Server on Arch 0.7. This program already works but still needs some improvement. I added one of its daemons to rc.conf. Then, since I rebooted my machine, the kernel modules would be loaded no longer, even after I had deleted the VMware's daemon from rc.conf.

dtw

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Re: no module loaded when booting

ok what else did you install today - i don't think you have identifed the source of the problem - did you upgarde your kernel?

dtw

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Re: no module loaded when booting

ok - you have pm'ed me to ask for help and then abandonned me in this thread.

AFAIK the daemon has nothing to do with the problem.  If you are using trying 2.6 then trying doing pacman -S kernel26 to reinstall your modules - your Vmware installation may have screwed them up

aufgeist

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Re: no module loaded when booting

Thanks! It is surely due to myself. By checking, I found /lib/modules/2.6.10-ARCH/modules.dep was empty. I then executed depmod and then sunlight shines again. I think probably I ever ran depmod by mistakes.