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| DATE | 2004-06-28 |
| FROM | Adam Kosmin
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] (fwd) [alois@astro.ch: Re: Redhat support experience]
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Is anyone here running RHEL 3? If so, what do you make of this? Does
this TCPA stuff exist on your machine(s)?
Adam
----- Forwarded message from Ed Wilts -----
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:42:24 -0500
To: redcap list
From: Ed Wilts
Subject: [alois-at-astro.ch: Re: Redhat support experience]
Reply-to: red-cap-list-at-redhat.com
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It looks like Red Hat support got this one wrong.
I realize that the support organization can't be right 100% of the time
(a nice target but probably never reachable). Do you want to receive
reports like this or do you have your own internal checks and balances
that already caught it?
Thanks,
,.../Ed (who ran a support organization in a previous life)
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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:20:17 +0200
To: "Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)"
From: Alois Treindl
Subject: Re: Redhat support experience
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Reply-To: "Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)"
Alois Treindl wrote:
>since I upgraded recently to kernel 2.4.21-15.0.2.ELsmp,
>the system logs frequently this error message:
>
>modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-224
>last message repeated 2 times
>
>This happens on all machines for which I have done the kernel update.
>
I registered the problem with Redhat Support, at the same time as I had
submitted it to the mailing list. It turned into an interesting experience.
This monday morning Redhat support told me:
-- begin quote --
The character device with major 10 and minor 224 is not registered in
devices.txt (/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/devices.txt) that comes
with kernel-source, so i cannot tell wich devices it is.
Chances are that this is a device used by some application trying to
read to a character device with major 10 and minor 224 without having
the module available (as this device does not exists as far as
devices.txt is concerned, it s normal that we do not ship such a driver).
In order to get rid of this error message, you can add the following
line in /etc/modules.conf: alias char-major-10-224 off
-- end quote --
I have answered them:
-- begin quote --
Yes, the line in /etc/modules.conf gets rid of the messages
The entry has to do with the (new) audit service, a component
built in by Redhat and not by me.
I have disabled audit as a service, because I don't run unknown
services on the system, but the rpms are installed:
laus-libs-0.1-56RHEL3
laus-0.1-54RHEL3
The file /usr/share/doc/MAKEDEV-3.3.12/devices.txt
tells us what char-major-10-224 is
224 = /dev/tpm TCPA TPM driver
I would feel safer with my system if Redhat Support actually knew what
services and devices they build in ;-)
This is particularily true for the infamous TCPA stuff (Microsoft's
'trusted computing' spy module)
-- end quote ---
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