modprobe: FATAL

@ywliu:

Hello,

I have a new Xen VM running CentOS 5, and since the first day I got it, it kept issuing the following error messages :

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Feb 17 10:01:01 li22-179 modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.18.8-domU-linode7/modules.dep: No such file or directory

Feb 17 10:50:08 li22-179 last message repeated 5 times

Feb 17 10:54:22 li22-179 last message repeated 6 times

Feb 17 11:01:01 li22-179 last message repeated 9 time

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The system looks normal, so I assume the message is a harmless warning. But it is still a little annoying in the syslog. I have no idea what programs trigger this, and googling on the net didn't get me answers. Could someone explain why this happens and how to turn it of ?

Thanks…

ywliu
The xen kernels support modules, but none are installed, so the module directory doesn't exist. You can prevent the message by manually creating it:

mkdir /lib/modules/2.6.18.8-domU-linode7
depmod -a

This should silence those messages.