Bugzilla Bug 216982

The location of svgalib_helper containing the line "probeall /dev/svga
svgalib_helper" recently moved to /etc/modprobe.d from /etc/modules.d.  Ever
since then I get multiple messages at boot or when using modprobe.  I've
checked that it is indeed svgalib_helper that is the cause, and not another
probeall line.

"WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 126: ignoring bad line
starting with 'probeall'"

An old thread in the forums (see URL field) has been resurrected by users who
appear to be hitting this bug as well.

Also reference: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214274

emerge --info from one of the affected machines:
Portage 2.1.4.4 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.6-hardenednossp, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.24-hardened-2008040501 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-hardened-2008040501 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core
Processor 3800+
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:45:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -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/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/
http://gentoo.netnitco.net/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common"
LINGUAS="en en_US en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--progress
--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise
/usr/portage/local/layman/trauma /usr/portage/local/layman/wolf31o2
/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://*yoink*(private)/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi adns alsa apache2 apm audiofile
bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi blas bluetooth bzip2 cairo calendar canna
caps cdb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr clamav cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl
curlwrappers dba dbm dbus dbx dedicated dga dio directfb doc dri dts dv dvb dvd
dvdr dvdread encode evo exif expat fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac
flash flatfile foomaticdb fortran freetds freewnn ftp gb gcj gd gdbm geoip ggi
gif ginac glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtkhtml guile hal hardened iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inifile
ipv6 jack java javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit kde ladspa
lapack lash lcms ldap lesstif libcaca libg++ libgda libsamplerate libwww lirc
lm_sensors logrotate lua mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mbox mcal mcve
memlimit mhash midi mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mnogosearch mono motif mp3 mpeg
mpi mplayer msession musepack nas ncurses neXt netboot netcdf nis nls nptl
nptlonly nsplugin ocaml offensive ofx ogg openal opengl osc pam pcntl pcre pda
pdf perl php pic plotutils png portaudio posix ppds python qdbm qt3 qt4
quicktime radius readline recode ruby samba sasl scanner sdl seamonkey session
sharedext sharedmem shorten simplexml slang slp smartcard smp sndfile snmp soap
sockets socks5 sox speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl
startup-notification svg svga sysvipc szip tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads
tidy tiff timidity tk tokenizer truetype unicode urandom usb v4l vcd vhosts
videos vorbis wavpack wddx wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xcomposite xface
xine xinerama xinetd xml xmlrpc xorg xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid yaz zeo zlib"
ALSA_CARDS="au8820 ca0106 emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix
dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter
mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions
alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file
authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user
autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires
ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache
mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir
usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm
dummy fbdev mga nv nvidia r128 trident v4l vesa vga"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS

Reproducible: Always

This line needs to go from the ebuild:

MODULESD_SVGALIB_HELPER_ADDITIONS="probeall  /dev/svga  svgalib_helper"

thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 214274 ***