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osintusr

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Registered: 2017-11-03

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[SOLVED] systemd fails to load acpi_call, tp_smapi at boot

Hi all,

I'm very new to Arch but have read the systemd wiki and other associated pages and also consulted the forums and read some posts from other users who have had a similar issue. My system boots but records an error when loading kernel modules acpi_call and tp_smapi. Both are installed on the system.

I recently switched to the 4.9.61-1-lts kernel from 4.13.xx.

journalctl -u systemd-modules-load:
https://ptpb.pw/zl2B

I checked in '/lib/modules/4.13.12-1-ARCH/' and the module .ko.gz files were there, but they appeared to be missing from the '/lib/modules/4.9.61-1-lts/' directory. I copied them over into the 4.9-lts directories but still get the same errors. I'm still getting to grips with all the various log files so if there's anything else that would be useful please let me know and I'll post it.

My system is fully up-to-date and otherwise working fine. Are these errors potentially dangerous? If so, any suggestions as to what to do next?

Thanks

Last edited by osintusr (2017-11-14 21:50:34)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] systemd fails to load acpi_call, tp_smapi at boot

I checked in '/lib/modules/4.13.12-1-ARCH/' and the module .ko.gz files were there, but they appeared to be missing from the '/lib/modules/4.9.61-1-lts/' directory. I copied them over into the 4.9-lts directories but still get the same errors.

Modules are built against a particular kernel version copying them across would lead to the kernel attempting to load incompatible versions.
How did you check the kernel the system is using is 4.13.y instead of 4.9.y?
Also what is the output of

$ modinfo acpi_call
$ modinfo tp_smapi

osintusr

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Registered: 2017-11-03

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Re: [SOLVED] systemd fails to load acpi_call, tp_smapi at boot

For the modinfo commands I get:

modinfo: ERROR: Module acpi_call not found.
modinfo: ERROR: Module tp_smapi not found.

And I used uname -a:

Linux thinkpad 4.9.61-1-lts #1 SMP Wed Nov 8 17:49:38 CET 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've removed the files I copied over to the lts kernel.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,859

Re: [SOLVED] systemd fails to load acpi_call, tp_smapi at boot

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … _call-lts/  https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … smapi-lts/

osintusr

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Registered: 2017-11-03

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Re: [SOLVED] systemd fails to load acpi_call, tp_smapi at boot

Thank you! That was silly of me.