[arch-general] mounting a data dvd fails

Mon Sep 14 10:59:33 EDT 2009

On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:33 +0200, JM wrote:
> The kernel installed is standard kernel26 from [core]. The system is i686.
> 
> pacman -Qi kernel26
> Name          : kernel26
> Version         : 2.6.30.6-1
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux hp510 2.6.30-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 9 12:37:32 UTC 2009
> i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.26GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> I checked grub's menu.lst file, reinstalled the kernel with pacman -S
> kernel26 and rebooted, just to be sure. Still the same error message.
> 
> Thanks for suggestions.

Looks like your module-init-tools is either outdated or damaged. Do the
modprobe and insmod binaries in your $PATH match the ones installed by
module-init-tools?