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mitch_feaster

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From: San Diego, CA

Registered: 2011-02-27

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[SOLVED] udevd specified group 'floppy' unkown

Hello!

I'm seeing a slightly annoying message during boot that I'm trying to get rid of. Specifically, during the "Loading User-specified Modules" phase I get the following message:

udevd[229]: specified group 'floppy' unknown

This is the line in /etc/rc.d/functions that is causing the message (the modprobe -ab call).

I started seeing this issue after I created a file in /etc/modprobe.d named "my_blacklist_modules.conf" with the following content:

blacklist floppy

All I did was save the file, browse the web a bit, then delete the file. I didn't even reboot with the file in place! Is that directory monitored, triggering some hook to parse the .conf's and do something with them -- or something?? You can see I'm grasping for straws here... Any help is greatly appreciated.

Last edited by mitch_feaster (2012-01-20 05:39:32)

brebs

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Re: [SOLVED] udevd specified group 'floppy' unkown

/lib/udev/rules.d50-udev-default.rules (on my PC) contains:

SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="fd[0-9]", GROUP="floppy"

Do you have a floppy group in /etc/group?

mitch_feaster

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From: San Diego, CA

Registered: 2011-02-27

Posts: 55

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Re: [SOLVED] udevd specified group 'floppy' unkown

I'm an idiot, I totally forgot that I had merged some old .pacnew files and one of them was /etc/group... I must have inadvertently deleted floppy from there. I added it back and now I'm good to go .

Thanks!