[Breezy] Boot error messages

Mark Nottingham mark at planetman.co.uk
Wed Sep 28 13:33:57 UTC 2005


Frank McCormick wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:37:58 +0100
>Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>In the last kernel update, I started getting a series of error
>>messages on boot in the form:
>>
>>insmod: error inserting 'FILENAME': -1 File exists.
>>
>>The files are all in /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-686/kernel/drivers/video.
>>They are: consolebitblit.ko, consolefont.ko, consoletileblit.ko,
>>consolefbcon.ko, cfbcoprea.ko, cfbfilect.ko, cfbimgt.ko and
>>softcour.ko
>>
>>(Sorry for the odd way of listing them. I don't seem to have a boot
>>log, or at least not in /var/log , and an fgrep confirms that these
>>lines don't appear in any log file located there. I have to retype
>>them by switching from tty 1 and 7.)
>>
>>I have intel i810 on-board graphics. The system seems unaffected. X
>>loads and everything is working fine, as far as I can see. Is it
>>something to worry about, is anyone seeing this?
>>
>>-Eamonn
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>I was wondering about this this morning - I get the exact same thing.
>
>Cheers
>
>Frank
>
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Me too. No solution though, I'm afraid.

Regards

Mark




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