CONFIG_DESKTOP=n gives "request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c"

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 10 January 2011 10:43, Arno Steffen wrote:
> Thanks for explaining this. I always thought my kernel supports ELF,
> as I see this:
> 
> cat .config | grep ELF
> CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
> # CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is not set
> 
> and in menuconfig
> 
> BINFMT_ELF [=y]
> ELF_CORE [=y]
> CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS [=n]
> BINFMT_ELF_FDPIC [=n]
> BINFMT_ELF [=y]
> COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF [=n]
> 
> For everything expect the last "COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF" I have a
> description in menuconfig.
> Is this really the problem?

What "file `which modprobe`" says?
What "hexdump -C `which modprobe` | head" says?

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