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dukedirt

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[SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

When booting Arch, I get this error message:

[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules
See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details.

When doing so, I get this:

● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2019-02-03 08:50:28 SAST; 29min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
  Process: 260 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 260 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.

I can still boot into Arch and everything seems to work fine, just wondering how to fix this error message.
There were other similar topics, but I couldn't find any solutions that worked for me.
Here's my uname -r

4.20.6-arch1-1-ARCH

pacman -Q linux

linux 4.20.6.arch1-1

and my lsblk, if that helps.

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   300M  0 part /efi
├─sda2   8:2    0    10G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda3   8:3    0 228.2G  0 part /

Last edited by dukedirt (2019-02-03 14:48:38)

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

ls /lib/modules-load.d /usr/lib/modules-load.d /usr/local/lib/modules-load.d /etc/modules-load.d /run/modules-load.d
cat /proc/cmdline

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dukedirt

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

ls /lib/modules-load.d /usr/lib/modules-load.d /usr/local/lib/modules-load.d /etc/modules-load.d /run/modules-load.d

/local/lib/modules-load.d /etc/modules-load.d /run/modules-load.d
ls: cannot access '/usr/local/lib/modules-load.d': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/run/modules-load.d': No such file or directory
/etc/modules-load.d:

/lib/modules-load.d:
acpi_call.conf  bluez.conf  cdrecord.conf  tp_smapi.conf

/usr/lib/modules-load.d:
acpi_call.conf  bluez.conf  cdrecord.conf  tp_smapi.conf

cat /proc/cmdline

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=06fdca83-7f9f-49d7-b546-1aadba700664 rw quiet

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Check the contents of acpi_call.conf,  bluez.conf,  cdrecord.conf &  tp_smapi.conf and attempt to modprobe the listed modules. See which one fails.

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dukedirt

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Modprobe failed to insert tp_smapi from tp_smapi.conf:

sudo modprobe tp_smapi

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tp_smapi': No such device or address

tp_smapi.conf

tp_smapi

Should I remove the tp_smapi.conf file or will that cause problems?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

pacman -Qs smapi

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dukedirt

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

 pacman -Qs smapi 

outputs

 local/tp_smapi 0.43-83
    Modules for ThinkPad's SMAPI functionality 

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

pacman -Qkk tp_smapi

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dukedirt

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

$ pacman -Qkk tp_smapi
tp_smapi: 9 total files, 0 altered files

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Sanity chedk: do you actually have a thinkpad?

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dukedirt

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

yes, a t470

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

https://github.com/evgeni/tp_smapi

Does not work on:
* X230 and newer
* T430 and newer

kick the package, your model isn't supported.

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dukedirt

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Thanks a ton for all the help!
Removed it and the message no longer appears.