I encountered the following message when installing or removing a new kernel : Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e1:00.0/modalias Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e0:06.0/modalias remove-boot-splash: Format of /boot/initrd-5.17.5-desktop-2.mga9.img not recognized I do not have identified any bad side effect about it. I filled the bug against the kernel package but it might as well be related to grub $ rpm -q grub2-common grub2-common-2.06-16.mga9 My PC is a recent one, upgraded to cauldron just after the installation. The behaviour is probably the same from the beginning (at least 5.16.11-desktop-1.mga9) Some investigations i made: $ grep . /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/modalias ... /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.1/modalias:pci:v000010DEd00002291sv00001043sd0000144Cbc04sc03i00 /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:00.0/modalias:pci:v000014C3d00007961sv00001A3Bsd00004680bc02sc80i00 /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/modalias:pci:v000010ECd00008162sv00001043sd0000208Fbc02sc00i00 /sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:e0:06.0/modalias:pci:v00008086d00009A0Fsv00000000sd00000000bc06sc04i00 /sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:e1:00.0/modalias:pci:v00008086d0000F1AAsv00008086sd0000390Fbc01sc08i02 The directory of two last lines looks like the message but start with 10000 and not 0000. $ ll /sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:{e0:06,e1:00}.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 févr. 26 22:33 /sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:e0:06.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/pci10000:e0/10000:e0:06.0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 févr. 26 22:33 /sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:e1:00.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/pci10000:e0/10000:e0:06.0/10000:e1:00.0/ $ grep -E ^DRIVER /sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:{e0:06,e1:00}.0/uevent /sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:e0:06.0/uevent:DRIVER=pcieport /sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:e1:00.0/uevent:DRIVER=nvme # LANG=C lshw uranus description: Notebook product: ASUS TUF Gaming F17 FX706HCB_TUF766HCB vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. version: 1.0 width: 4294967295 bits capabilities: smbios-3.3 dmi-3.3 smp vsyscall32 configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=ASUS TUF Gaming F17 uuid=1F84672F-1E63-4B48-85FC-339548AD0E3A *-core description: Motherboard product: FX706HCB vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. physical id: 0 version: 1.0 serial: N101NRCX000WZ3MB slot: Default string *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC. physical id: 0 version: FX706HCB.310 date: 11/25/2021 size: 64KiB capacity: 15MiB capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keybo ard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi *-storage description: RAID bus controller product: Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: e bus info: pci@0000:00:0e.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: storage msix pciexpress pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=vmd latency=0 resources: iomemory:610-60f iomemory:610-60f irq:0 memory:6104000000-6105ffffff memory:76000000-77ffffff memory:6107100000-61071fffff *-pci:1 description: PCI bridge product: 11th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller #0 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 6 version: 05 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport resources: irq:146 memory:76000000-761fffff *-storage description: Non-Volatile memory controller product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 version: 03: width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: storage pm msi pciexpress msix nvm_express bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=nvme latency=0 resources: irq:-2147483648 memory:76000000-76003fff memory:76004000-76023fff Even if it does seem to have any bad consequences on my system, i tought that it would make sense to let you know about it. I also have a lot of unknown key messages in my logs. Mostly e5. In neerly a month : # head -1 /var/log/messages Apr 1 09:12:51 uranus anacron[380684]: Job `cron.daily' terminated # grep -c "Unknown key e5" /var/log/messages 15809 # grep "Unknown key" /var/log/messages|sed "s/.*asus_wmi: //g"|sort|uniq -c 22 Unknown key 9e pressed 107 Unknown key b2 pressed 64 Unknown key b3 pressed 15822 Unknown key e5 pressed Regards
CC: (none) => dvgevers
CC: (none) => boulshet
Thank you for the report. This is grossly similar to bug 30353:- "keep getting message: Format of /boot/initrd-x.y.z-desktop-n.mga8.img not recognized when installing new kernel" although most of the details are different. What is similar is: - relates to installation/removal of kernel - and "Format of /boot/initrd-x.y.z-desktop-n.mga?.img not recognized" - is repetitive - does not seem harmful It is a good idea that it relates to Grub2; need to check that other bug. It is likely that this will become a duplicate of the earlier one.
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
thanks for answering. You are probably right and that would mean that the "Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/" part of the text could be not related to the initrd one.
The roughly similar bug 30353 is now identified as a duplicate of bug 19049, which is ongoing. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30353#c3 confirms it is the bootsplash script (as the message says), and that it is harmless: "remove-boot-splash: Format of /boot/initrd-5.17.5-desktop-2.mga9.img not recognized" ----------- But: > Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e1:00.0/modalias > Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e0:06.0/modalias CC'ing tmb to know whether this matters, or is related.
CC: (none) => tmb
Well, i probably found where the msg come from # lspcidrake > /dev/null Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e1:00.0/modalias Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e0:06.0/modalias
Source RPM: kernel-5.17.3-2.mga9.src.rpm => ldetect-0.12.8-6.mga9.src.rpm
Sorry to have left this. Is it still happening?
yes it does # lspcidrake > /dev/null Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e1:00.0/modalias Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e0:06.0/modalias # rpm -q -f /usr/bin/lspcidrake ldetect-0.12.8-6.mga9
Thanks for the confirmation. Except I do not see these msgs when executing the same command: $ sudo lspcidrake > /dev/null [sudo] password for lewis: $ $ su Password: # lspcidrake > /dev/null # Same version of ldetect. OTOH I do not have Grub. So what do we do? Do these messages show in the journal? When you raised the bug, it was definitely tied to installing/removing a kernel; then comment 4 changed its orientation. If it does show in the journal (or terminal), I can try at the next kernel update.
lscpidrake is a tool used by the tools helping to configure a new kernel for being booted. It provides information about the available hardware. I assume that those information are used for setting the initrd image. The reason why you do not have the same errors as i do is probably related to the fact that your hardware is not the same as mine. That is the reason why i provided in my first message. That being said i do not know how to go on on this issue. If you need additional information to make progress on this issue i may provide it but i have not clue of what might be usefull for that. Thanks
Ping tmb. This really does need a comment from Thomas.
any advice ?
ignore the message, its basically cosmetic when drakx notifies that it does not find the data it assumes would be there...
thanks
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIXStatus: NEW => RESOLVED