[Linux-disciples] What does this mean? (fwd) (fwd)

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:05:19PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:57:19PM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:
> > FATAL: Module ip_conntrack is in use.
> > karl at ubuntu:~$ lsmod |grep ip_conntrack
> > ip_conntrack           43668  1 ipt_state
> > karl at ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe -r ipt_state
> > FATAL: Module ipt_state is in use.
> 
> So look at who's using ipt_state:
> 
> lsmod |grep ipt_state
> 
> If they look like modules that you can remove, remove them
> with 'modprobe -r'.
> 
> I wish I could tell you which modules are safe to remove and
> which aren't, but I don't know that offhand.

Sometimes a module will be held by a program, rather than another module.
For example, you can't remove sound modules while a sound daemon is
running, but you won't be able to figure that out from lsmod.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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