On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 02:42:57PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: > I am running Fedora 16 with kernel 3.14.19-100.fc19.x86_64 and > systemd-204-21.fc19.x86_64. > > On startup (and sometimes shutdown), I see a message like this in > /var/log/messages: > > Oct 6 13:53:37 hobgoblin modprobe[623]: modprobe: ERROR: missing parameters. See -h. > > This message appears to be due to invocations of modprobe with these > arguments: > > /sbin/modprobe -qab > /sbin/modprobe -qabr > > Grepping all the system files (and looking in the journal), it seems > likely that these invocations are made by systemd, under control of > /usr/lib/systemd/system/lm_sensors.service: > > [Unit] > Description=Initialize hardware monitoring sensors > After=syslog.target > > [Service] > EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors > Type=oneshot > RemainAfterExit=yes > ExecStart=-/sbin/modprobe -qab $BUS_MODULES $HWMON_MODULES > ExecStart=/usr/bin/sensors -s > ExecStop=-/sbin/modprobe -qabr $BUS_MODULES $HWMON_MODULES > > [Install] > WantedBy=multi-user.target > > Which suggests that $BUS_MODULES and $HWMON_MODULES are empty in this > context. > > I've found the threads "PATCH: systemd integration" and "PATCH: > systemd integration version 2". But they don't deal with the fact > that modprobe prints an error message if the list of modules to be > loaded is empty. Those error messages go into /var/log/messages, and > eventually logwatch sends e-mail to root complaining about them. > > There doesn't seem to be a facility in systemd to optionally start a > program depending on settings in another file. So maybe what is > needed are supporting scripts along these lines: > > #! /bin/sh > > if [ -n "$BUS_MODULES" -o -n "$HWMON_MODULES" ] > then > /sbin/modprobe -qab $BUS_MODULES $HWMON_MODULES > fi > > exec /usr/bin/sensors -s > > and > > #! /bin/sh > > if [ -n "$BUS_MODULES" -o -n "$HWMON_MODULES" ] > then > /sbin/modprobe -qabr $BUS_MODULES $HWMON_MODULES > fi > Not sure if there is anything we can do about that; it is a distribution problem, not a lm-sensors problem. Jean, any idea ? Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
