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.
