Still cannot load evq module
2007-12-25 7:59:00
Thanks everybody for your help sofar, only no luck this time.
THe problem looks weirder by the minute: it now appears to be
user-dependent rather than system dependent as I first said..
(See try # 1: I used another login on the other machine.... oops...)
below the original posting + some answers.
A. I forgot to mention in my original posting that I DID run install-openwin.
B. I followed your suggestions and checks:, that didn't yield any results
C. When I run loadmodule as root, or as a few other users, it works!
So I checked permissions, access rights, umasks, environment variables,
but stil no luck. I believe I am overlooking something very obvious.
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Original posting:
> Hi,
>
> ON one of my systems, openwin -nosunview does not work. It is:
>
> a SS1, Running OW V3.0, jumbopatches installed, OS 4.1.2
>
> When I startup openwin with -nosunview, xnews exits while trying to load
> the evq module. It aborts openwin with a message:
>
> override protection 664 for /var/tmp/loadmodule.out? loadmodule: child
> process died with status 65024
> xnews: Error: Unable to load evq module.
> xnews: Error: Check your installation.
> giving up.
> /usr/openwin/bin/xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to
> connect to X server
>
> I tried some things:
>
> 1. run this on another system. Guess what: -nosunview works just fine.
>
> 2. Compare the relevant directories, files, permissions, on both systems:
> I do not find any differences.
>
> 3. Remove all other loadable modules.
>
> 4. Find out what program generates the message: this appears to be
> loadmodule
> The xnews server calls a program 'loadmodule' When I run this manually,
> the folowing happens:
>
> loadmodule evqmod-sun4c.o evqload
>
> override protection 600 for /var/tmp/loadmodule.out? y
> can't mmap /var/tmp/loadmodule.out: Invalid argument
> loadmodule: child process died with status 5632
>
SUMMARY:
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You need to run the openwin/bin/install_openwin script on the machine
that is not working.
(Mike Halderman)
ups!upstage!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell)
russell@gssec.bt.co.uk (Russell Ritchie)
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What are the permissions on the excutable loadmodule? It should be
setuid to root like this:
$ ls -lg loadmodule
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root daemon 24576 Jul 31 21:37 loadmodule
ups!upstage!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell)
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Just a guess. Is the kernel built with the VDDRV option to allow modloaded drivers?
Sender: Dave_G._Kruse.sd@xerox.com
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I had a similar problem when I installed OW 3.0 a while ago.
It turned out that my problem was that /var/tmp was a symbolic link
to /tmp. A file named loadmodule.out is created both in /tmp and in
/var/tmp. I don't know if they differ, but when I made /var/tmp a
"real" directory everything worked fine.
and
How do the permissions on /var/tmp compare to a system where it works?
And/or /tmp?
epkakeh@kaepk2.ericsson.se (Ake Hjalmarsson)
Mike Raffety <miker@il.us.swissbank.com>
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Check your modload list with modstat, If you have three
modules loaded already you will need to add more loadable
module area's for more modules. If you need a more detailed
description on how to do this please let me know.
From: jeff@auratek.com (Jeff Martin)
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