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Kasumin

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Registered: 2021-02-01

Posts: 21

Failed to load kernel modules, but systemctl doesn't give details

Hello.

I got an error at boot that said that it failed to load kernel modules, and running

systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service

returns

systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-02-01 13:55:53 CST; 27s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
             man:modules-load.d(5)
    Process: 206 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 206 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Warning: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomplete.

Which doesn't really say much. There are other similar cases in this forum but all of them get actual error code details to work with. Checking the journal, the only error I found was:

Feb 01 13:55:53 kasumi-x230 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 01 13:55:53 kasumi-x230 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 01 13:55:53 kasumi-x230 systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
Feb 01 13:55:53 kasumi-x230 kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1612209353.849:3): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-modules-load comm="systemd">

and it also doesn't say much. Is there a way to fix this? My laptop boot like normal and there doesn't seem to be any problem with it, but I don't want to just leave some error unresolved. The error started popping up today, my kernel is up-to-date and I haven't installed anything that messes up with it other than thinkfan, and there hasn't been updates for it for a while.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,025

Re: Failed to load kernel modules, but systemctl doesn't give details

What is the output of

# SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load