kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe

[Ronald Cogen]

I Have installed SuSELinux EnterpriseEdition8.
During the boot process I get the following message: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsl host adapter, error=2.
What does this mean? Is it dangerous?

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

error 2 means that the file doesn't exist. See if you actually have a "modprobe" in /sbin.

If you don't, it means you haven't installed a package that perhaps you should have.

[Stuart Browne]

Does this system use an 'initrd' boot process?

If it does, it might be that it's missing in there.

It's also possible that the modules 'scsi host adapter' is missing (are you sure there's spaces, and not _'s?). Check for references in '/etc/modules.conf' for this.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Just checked my SuSE system. modprobe does live in /sbin, so either the installation is broken or the module that it tries to insert has not been installed. -s means reporting to syslog -k is a mode used by the kernel. So the real interesting part would be the next and that looks garbled in your post ;-) Try to get a good error please.

Greetings, Martin

[Ronald Cogen]

Thank you Mark and STuart, I'll look into that as soon as I'm at that site.

Martin: I'm not sure about what you meant by 'garbled'. I'm pretty sure I wrote the error message down the way it came. If you have a moment, could you fill me in?