Re: Missing module char-major-188

Tuesday, 30 September 2003

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 15:56, Charles Curley wrote:
...
 On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:18:28AM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
[...]
...
 > It's a pity that cups tries to randomly probe stuff like USB
at all when
 > I only have one locally attached parallel printer. I finally filed a
 > separate report for it:
 > 
 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105986

 I agree. I have no USB devices attached to my system, and no printers
 of any flavor. I had defined no printers at the time, and only looked
 into the problem when I had problems trying to use a network printer.

 However, it didn't take cups two whole minutes to decide it couldn't
 find the missing module.

 I took another look at my boot messages, and I see a lot of messages
 like:

 Sep 29 10:26:15 issola modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-34

 with different numbers attached. What is "block-major-*"? Something
 the USB system generates as needed? 
It means "something is accessing a block device with major number 34 and
I cannot associate any drivers with it" -- you can lookup known device
major/minor numbers in /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/devices.txt. In
your case:

[...]
 34 char        Z8530 HDLC driver
                  0 = /dev/scc0         First Z8530, first port
[...]
    block       Fourth IDE hard disk/CD-ROM interface
                  0 = /dev/hdg          Master: whole disk (or CD-ROM)
                 64 = /dev/hdh          Slave: whole disk (or CD-ROM)

                Partitions are handled the same way as for the first
                interface (see major number 3).
[...]

...
 Nils, did you get your printer to work even with this problem?

Yes, no problem when cups is running.

Nils
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