Bugzilla Bug 141090

This is what I get after updating svgalib 1.9.21-r1 to 1.9.24 (which got
recently x86 stable without any word in changelog, huh?):

WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 216: ignoring bad line starting with
'probeall'

Happens on each modprobe command, that means a lot during boot... This line is
coming from /etc/modules.d/svgalib_helper. I'm not sure why this happened only
after svgalib update because all svgalib versions ebuilds I see contain this
line:

MODULESD_SVGALIB_HELPER_ADDITIONS="probeall  /dev/svga  svgalib_helper"

which seems like the cause... some command modprobe doesn't understand. My
modprobe is from sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.2.1. Tried updating to latest
3.2.2-r1 to see if probeall is some new command, but warning was the same...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133936 ***

No it's not a dupe of that bug. I've read that bug before submitting this one.
It's true they mention the same warning there, but point of that bug is that
the module won't load at all, with FATAL error. Which got fixed there, the
module will load here, but the warning remains. You may say it's just a
warning, but as it makes the probeall line ignored, I don't think that's the
desired behavior.

Sorry forgot this.

Portage 2.1.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4,
2.6.17-gentoo-r3-perfctr i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r3-perfctr i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage-distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict
userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en cs"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage-packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/java-experimental
/usr/portage/local/java-experimental-migrated /usr/portage/local/caster"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X aac alsa amr apache2 apm audiofile avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 caps cdr cjk cli crypt cups
curl dbus directfb dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fam fbcon ffmpeg
fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
hal icq idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms
libcaca libg++ libwww lm_sensors lua lzo mad matroska mikmod mmx mmxext motif
mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla moznoirc mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nls
nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opengl oscar pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd
python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc sdl session slang sockets
speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vorbis win32codecs xine xml
xorg xosd xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_cs userland_GNU
video_cards_nvidia video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev
video_cards_v4l"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Been looking more into this, seems svgalib is not at fault, it was something
wrong with modules-update during emerge, which somehow generated modprobe.conf
in a way it was containing stuff that belongs in modules.conf but not
modprobe.conf...
I did rerun modules-update before manually but apparently it did nothing
because generated files were already newer. Now after forcing regeneration the
problem is gone. So something happened with modules-update but I cannot
reproduce it and it's not svgalib fault anyway, sorry.