On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:56:11PM -0400, cmcveigh(a)adelphia.net wrote:
I am running FC3 on an IBM T42 laptop. Early this morning I was
running
system-config-network to change some network settings. The system-
config-network app became very erratic in it behavior so I had to kill
its process. I next rebooted my machine (normaly less that a 1 minute
process) and it took 19 minutes to reboot.
Where was it spending most of its time ?
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
My question is how can I regenerate a correct modprobe.conf file for
my
machine? Can I simply reinstall the package that creates it? (rpm -q
--whatprovides /etc/modprobe.conf does not return anything), Are there
scripts in place that recreate the file? (I did try
running /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf but all it seems to want to do is
convert a modules.conf file to a modprobe.conf file).
rm -f /etc/modprobe.conf
rm -f /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
kudzu
should get you a recreated modprobe.conf
Dave