On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 21:07 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> After many hours of
> searching I found that I had a corrupted /etc/modprobe.conf file. I was
> 185 MB in size and full of gibberish.
*wow*. That's disturbing.
If you can repeat this, please file a bug against system-config-network
I wasn't ever able to reproduce it (fortunately or unfortunately), but
I've had the same thing happen to me once using one of the system-config
tools (I *think* it was network). Each line in modprobe.conf was
repeated over and over again. Every line in the file ended up like
this:
alias eth0 8139tooalias eth0 8139tooalias eth0 8139tooalias eth0
8139[... and so on for about ten megabytes or so]
Symptom on boot was the same thing as the original poster mentioned -
extremely long boot time. Opening up modprobe.conf in joe (emacs barfed
on the file) and just deleting the repetitions fixed things.
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