On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 22:17 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > 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. Thanks for your reply Ralf, but I dont see he CONFIG_UNIX option in my Makefile, so I created one, but still get the same error! is there anything else that i should try? Thanks again, Ashlesha. > Building it as a module won't work > as you just found :). > > Ralf
