[Gloucs] was: Recent redhat 8.1 update, now redhat 8

[Mick Brooks]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:13:22PM +0000, Brian Wilkinson wrote:
> Typical. My first posting to the group and I get it wrong. I meant redhat 8, 
> but I had just been reading the posting on Suse 8.1 and got muddled. The rest 
> of the posting was correct though, but I'll add it here just for 
> completeness.

Well welcome anyway.

> Nov 17 11:03:21 localhost gpm: gpm startup succeeded
> Nov 17 11:03:21 localhost crond: crond startup succeeded
> Nov 17 11:03:22 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded
> Nov 17 11:03:22 localhost xfs: listening on port 7100
> Nov 17 11:03:22 localhost anacron: anacron startup succeeded
> Nov 17 11:03:22 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic (unreadable)
> Nov 17 11:03:22 localhost atd: atd startup succeeded
> Nov 17 11:03:22 localhost rhnsd: rhnsd startup succeeded
> Nov 17 11:03:22 localhost rhnsd[840]: Red Hat Network Services Daemon starting 
> up.
> Nov 17 11:03:25 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
> char-major-195
> Nov 17 11:03:26 localhost gdm[895]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error 
> - Restarting :0
> Nov 17 11:03:26 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
> char-major-195
> Nov 17 11:03:27 localhost gdm[898]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error 
> - Restarting :0
> Nov 17 11:03:30 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
> char-major-195
> Nov 17 11:03:31 localhost gdm[901]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error 
> - Restarting :0
> Nov 17 11:03:35 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
> char-major-195
> Nov 17 11:03:36 localhost gdm[904]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error 
> - Restarting :0
> Nov 17 11:03:36 localhost gdm[850]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the 
> XKeepsCrashing script
> Nov 17 11:03:44 localhost shutdown: shutting down for system reboot

Hmmm. Google tells me that char-major-195 should be aliased to something to
do with nvidia gubbins. Does this sound likely - are you running a nvidia card?

If so you will probably  need to get that set up to work with your new kernel.
Maybe recompiling the module and sticking it in your /etc/modules.conf will do
it?
 
-- 
Mick Brooks
michael.brooks@physics.ox.ac.uk