Error: "modinfo: could not find module nwraid" when starting novell-nss

  • 7005015
  • 11-Dec-2009
  • 08-Nov-2012

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux

Situation

Error: "modinfo: could not find module nwraid" when starting novell-nss

Resolution

Make sure these RPMs are installed:
     novell-zapi-kmp-<kernelversion>
     nss-kmp-<kernelversion>
     adminfs-kmp-<kernelversion>
     novell-nwmpk-kmp-<kernelversion >
 
This can also be caused by entries missing from modules.dep.  Try running depmod -a.

Additional Information

oes2-server:~ # rcnovell-nss start
Starting Novell Storage Services (NSS)
modinfo: could not find module nwraid
ERROR: Cannot find nwraid.ko
.......... ABORTING /sbin/rcnovell-nss ..........
mknod: missing operand after `0'
Try `mknod --help' for more information.
chgrp: cannot access `/dev/zapi': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/dev/zapi': No such file or directory
NSS is NOT fully running!