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List:       firewall-1
Subject:    Re: [FW-1] "modprobe: Can't locate module n" and insmod in diskwait
From:       sin <sin () IMACANDI ! NET>
Date:       2006-12-23 12:17:16
Message-ID: 458D1E4C.2010701 () imacandi ! net
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David Landgren wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm puzzled by the following behaviour. I have a SecurePlatform (the
> hardened RH Linux) and it's trying to load a module and not succeeding.
> I noticed it because run queue is permanently jammed at 1.00.
> 
> For starters, if I run top and filter out the non-idle processes I see:
> 
>  10:36:56  up 13 days, 15:13,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
> 51 processes: 50 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
>            total    0.2%    0.0%    0.0%   1.0%     4.8%    3.6%  190.4%
>            cpu00    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   1.0%     4.8%    1.8%   92.4%
>            cpu01    0.2%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    1.8%   98.0%
> Mem:  1025216k av,  495748k used,  529468k free,       0k shrd,   89804k
> buff
>        351888k active,              45168k inactive
> Swap: 2097112k av,       0k used, 2097112k free                  155060k
> cached
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
>   608 root      15   0     0    0     0 DW    0.0  0.0   0:09   1 insmod
> 

it's a bug in procps from rhel3, and since checkpoint doesn't stay in
sync with updates from redhat they did not fixed that particular bug.

> 
> And in /var/log/messages I see
> 
> Dec 22 10:00:40 fw-live modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module n
> Dec 22 10:00:42 fw-live last message repeated 2 times
> 
> I don't where to look for something that wants to load a module, and a
> module named "n" sound pretty bogus to me. Does anyone have an idea how
> to find out more about this, and stop it from happening?
> 
> # fw ver
> This is Check Point VPN-1(TM) & FireWall-1(R) NGX (R61) - Build 207
>

does the same in r60 vanilla.

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