Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 1999 07:43:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Eleonora Autore <> | Subject | Re: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-0000, errno=8, 12 |
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On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Did you compile ELF support as a module?
nay, far it be from me do such a thing. I am against having ELF (and proc and lots of other things) modularized - they should be part of the UNIX (=Linux) kernel always.
> You _have_ to set CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y for kmod to work. Otherwise, > the first time you trigger kmod it will try to call modprobe, > which will trigger a load of the ELF binfmt module, > which will try to call modprobe, > which will trigger a load of the ELF binfmt module, > ... > ad infinitum until we die with ENOMEM.
yes, I know that.
> There was a change to kmod in 2.3.27, but I fail to see how it > could cause the problems you described. If you try 2.3.26, > does it still not work?
I will debug it and report the results as soon as I get a chance.
Regards, Tigran.
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