modprobe loop on 23.10 not working

[Jerry Geis]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 5:23 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 5:21 PM Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 04:14:45PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
>> > It seems I cannot load loop
>> >
>> >  uname -a
>> > Linux silentm 6.5.0-13-generic #13-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov  3
>> > 12:16:05 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> >
>> > # modprobe loop
>> > # lsmod | grep loop
>>
>> That means it's built into the kernel rather than being modular.  You
>> don't need to modprobe it - it's just there.
>>
>>   $ grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP= /boot/config-6.5.0-13-generic
>>   CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
>>
>> --
>> Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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> This is the actual error I get , I thought it was missing loop device - I
> dont think that any more - but dont know what this error is.
> /mnt/iso is valid
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> mount -t iso9660 -o loop ubuntu-22.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso  /mnt/iso/
> mount: /mnt/iso/: failed to setup loop device for
> ubuntu-22.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso.
>
> ls -l /mnt
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21  2023 iso
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> Jerry
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>

Too much turkey - user error. Seems I had over wrote the iso. Redownloading
So sorry.

Jerry
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