Bug#652672: busybox: modprobe does not handle builtins

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2011-12-19 22:15 +0100, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> On 20.12.2011 01:08, Sven Joachim wrote:
> []
>>> I'd close this bug right away but I want to hear your opinion
>>> first, hence downgrading it to wishlist - since the behavour
>>> is correct.
>> 
>> I disagree (see above), but I can understand the need to keep busybox
>> small.  Alas, initramfs-tools do not use the -q option.
>
> initramfs-tools does not need to use -q option since the only modules
> it loads are real modules, not built-ins.

This is not what I'm seeing here.

> This should happen only on somehow improperly configured system.
> What tries to load module which is not module?

I would assume that fstype (from klibc-utils) detects my root
filesytstem is ext4, and some script tries to modprobe the ext4 module
as a consequence.  However, there is another error message that even
appears with official kernels:

modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep

I found "unix" in the initramfs in conf/modules, don't know where it
comes from.

BTW, are you sure that you updated your initramfs before you tried to
reproduce the problem?

Cheers,
       Sven