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Why /bin/true in modprobe.conf
According to the modprobe.d(5) man page:
install modulename command...
This is the most powerful primitive: it tells modprobe to run your command instead of inserting the module in the kernel as ...
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Where should I place modules settings, in /etc/modprobe.d or /lib/modprobe.d?
Where to place modules settings
/etc/modprobe.d
it seems /lib/modprobe.d is for conf files for the packages we install in the system.
Yes, there are directories for software packages and site ...
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Docker service not able to start anymore because of modprobe error
I had the same error today after upgrading docker-ce to version 18.09.0 on Debian 9. I can't give you a solution for that version but going back to version 18.06.1 did make it start again.
For Ubuntu ...
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Docker service not able to start anymore because of modprobe error
Find out if you have the file (you certainly should on stock Ubuntu 16.04):
find /lib/modules -name "*overlay*"
And can you load it yourself?
# modprobe overlay
# echo $?
0
# lsmod | grep overlay
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CentOS 7: sshfs can't find fuse, even though fuse is loaded
Eww, it's OpenVZ. That's why it doesn't work. You can't load modules (properly) on OpenVZ without the VPS provider doing it for you. These guys somehow managed to screw it up. Go find a nice KVM VPS.
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