Bug 26764 – gentoo patch to quieten module-init-tools breaks modprobe

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rudo Thomas 2003-08-16 18:42:41 UTC]

The be-quiet-for-devfsd gentoo patch for module-init-tools is wrong. 
 
When the patches modprobe detects it should be quiet, but doesn't find the 
requested module, it exits with 0, instead of 1. 
 
This proves fatal when using something like 
install a modprobe b || modprobe c 
in /etc/modprobe.conf. modprobe c is never tried, as modprobe b always 
succeeds. 
Such constructs are generated by generate-modprobe.conf when processing a 
"probe" directive found in /etc/modules.conf. 
 
A fixed patch (1 chunk from the original patch removed) is attached. 
 
Apply, please. 
 
Rudo.

[Comment 1 Rudo Thomas 2003-08-16 18:45:07 UTC]

Created attachment 16199 [details, diff]
correct version of the broken patch

[Comment 2 Rudo Thomas 2003-08-16 18:45:35 UTC]

Created attachment 16200 [details, diff]
correct version of the broken patch

[Comment 3 Rudo Thomas 2003-08-16 18:46:08 UTC]

Created attachment 16201 [details]
correct version of the broken patch

[Comment 4 Rudo Thomas 2003-08-16 18:48:49 UTC]

Sorry about the duplicate patches, but bugzilla spit out some error messages 
all the time, although the patches were correctly uploaded. 

[Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-08-19 09:15:23 UTC]

Please use latest module-init-tools, and just add a patch that fixes the
return.  Thanks.

[Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-08-22 22:57:48 UTC]

Seperate issue ...

[Comment 7 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-10-29 10:26:21 UTC]

This is fixed in latest version (0.9.15+).