On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:42:39AM -0800, Ashlesha Shintre wrote: > During boot up on the Encore M3 board (AU1500 MIPS) of the 2.6.14.6 > kernel, the process stops after the NFS filesystem has been mounted, > memory freed and spits out the following message: > > > > request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 The kernel tried to open UNIX domain socket but because support is not compiled it will load the module instead. Now, glibc-based programs happen to try to connect to nscd via a UNIX domain socket on startup and the whole show starts all over. After a few iterations the kernel gets tired of the whole game and prints this friendly message. > What does the net-pf-1 mean? net-pf-1 is PF_UNIX, see the definitions in include/linux/socket.h. So you should set CONFIG_UNIX to y. Building it as a module won't work as you just found :). Ralf
