SOLVED-Raspbian Jessie: failed to start Load Kernel Modules?

[Rive]

Keep getting this "Unit systemd-modules-load.service entered failed state."

I want to troubleshoot, and resolve this (my goal is to remove the fail message at boot).



Any ideas? Thanks. I though it might have been I2C (which is disabled in raspi-config), but now, i just dunno.


Here is the boot scroll message:



Failed] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details.
6.080707] systemd[1]: failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
6.097303] systemd[1]: Unit systemd-modules-load.service entered failed state.



systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service
● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2016-04-09 12:01:28 EDT; 13min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
  Process: 85 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 85 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

[DougieLawson]

Have you changed something in /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf? because it looks like you may have introduced a syntax error or are trying to load a non-existent module.

[DirkS]

systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service

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sudo systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service

You should get some more info (last messages logged)

[Rive]

Have you changed something in /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf? because it looks like you may have introduced a syntax error or are trying to load a non-existent module.

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sudo nano /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf

/etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf

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# Parallel printer driver modules loading for cups
# LOAD_LP_MODULE was 'yes' in /etc/default/cups
lp
ppdev
parport_pc

/etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf

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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
# 
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

i2c-dev

Try

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sudo systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service

You should get some more info (last messages logged)

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service
● systemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2016-04-09 23:31:27 EDT; 12h ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
  Process: 86 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 86 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.

[Rive]

Thanks. Resolved.

Looks like it was caused by cups/hplip/hp-setup:

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sudo apt-get install hplip
sudo hp-setup -i

In any event, through trial and error, I stopped the boot fail error by commenting all out like so:

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sudo nano /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf

/etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf

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# Parallel printer driver modules loading for cups
# LOAD_LP_MODULE was 'yes' in /etc/default/cups
#lp
#ppdev
#parport_pc

I have a wireless network HP printer, I am going to test to make sure it still works, If so, I will mark this thread as [Solved].

[michigeo]

I have the same problem with cups, it causes the kernel to fail. I also have a CANON network printer that with cups does not print! My question is how you solved the problem, i did not understand.

thanks in advance

[DNPNWO]

I have the same problem with cups, it causes the kernel to fail. I also have a CANON network printer that with cups does not print! My question is how you solved the problem, i did not understand.

thanks in advance

He went into:
sudo nano /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf

and commented out (#) all the following lines like so:

/etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf

# Parallel printer driver modules loading for cups
# LOAD_LP_MODULE was 'yes' in /etc/default/cups
#lp
#ppdev
#parport_pc

[adsbn]

Is possible to resolve this?
http://i.imgur.com/zPkGphO

[apbonn]

i ve got the same problem, but inside of /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf is nothing i could comment out?
How to solve this now?

[DougieLawson]

i ve got the same problem, but inside of /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf is nothing i could comment out?
How to solve this now?

Just remove that file.

Then reboot and see what journalctl -xe tells you.

[mrpraline]

This problem is caused by the cups-filters package. This will install /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf if it doesn't find a /etc/default/cups file that tells it not to install.
To fix this behavior:
Remove the /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf file and check that kernel modules now load without errors:

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sudo rm /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf
sudo systemctl restart systemd-modules-load.service

To make sure the file will not be recreated on the future updates, create a file /etc/default/cups with the following content:

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sudo nano /etc/default/cups

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# do not load parallel port modules
LOAD_LP_MODULES="no"

You may optionally test your work by reinstalling cups-filters and checking that /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf doesn't exist after te reinstall.

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall cups-filters

[PeterJamesRye]

A little down the track, but I had the same issue with a Respberry Pi, Model B, installing lubuntu 16.04. Could not get to any user interface, but I pulled out the SD card, edited the CUPS conf file (commenting out everything) on another Linux computer, and the next boot went perfectly OK.

[ajayhakkumar]

Raspbian Jessie: failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Nothing works keyboard, mouse or any external devices connected to open kernel

[patricktokeeffe]

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# do not load parallel port modules
LOAD_LP_MODULES="no"

Hi, This thread comes up high in search rankings so I just wanted to correct a minor error. There should not be quotemarks around the arguments.. do this instead:

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# /etc/default/cups
# do not load parallel port modules
LOAD_LP_MODULES=no

Thanks!