conf/73535: default loader.conf sets wrong module_path

[Olafur Osvaldsson]

>Number:         73535
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       default loader.conf sets wrong module_path
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 04 15:10:27 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Olafur Osvaldsson
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 i386
>Organization:
ISNIC
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD aker.isnic.is 5.3-RC1 FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 #0: Sat Oct 30 14:46:17 GMT 2004 oli at aker.isnic.is:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ISNIC i386


	
>Description:
kldload tries to load all modules by default from /boot/modules even
though kldload(8) states that /boot/kernel is the directory containing
the modules, and in sys/boot/common/module.c the default is set to
"/boot/kernel;/boot/modules" wich is almost in sync with kldconfig(8)
man page that states /boot/kernel, /boot/modules, /modules to be the
default module search path used by the kernel.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
kldload ucom (or any working module on your system)
>Fix:
You can either apply the attached patch or just comment out module_path

	

--- loader.conf.diff begins here ---
--- sys/boot/forth/loader.conf.orig	Thu Nov  4 14:53:44 2004
+++ sys/boot/forth/loader.conf	Thu Nov  4 14:54:09 2004
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 #beastie_disable="NO"		# Turn the beastie boot menu on and off
 #console="vidconsole"		# Set the current console
 #currdev="disk1s1a"		# Set the current device
-module_path="/boot/modules"	# Set the module search path
+module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules"	# Set the module search path
 #prompt="\\${interpret}"	# Set the command prompt
 #root_disk_unit="0"		# Force the root disk unit number
 #rootdev="disk1s1a"		# Set the root filesystem
--- loader.conf.diff ends here ---


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