Created attachment 509098 [details] Output of emerge --info After merging any version of virtualbox-modules, a post installation message advises openrc users as follows: "If you are using sys-apps/openrc, please add "vboxdrv", "vboxnetflt", "vboxnetadp" and "vboxpci" to: /etc/conf.d/modules. If you follow this instruction you end up loading the kernel modules twice, because the ebuild installs a kernel module configuration file: "/usr/lib/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf" which openrc reads at boot time and loads the modules listed there, and then proceeds to load from the usual openrc location (/etc/conf.d/modules). P.S. My emerge.info shows openrc-0.17 which I installed after I discovered this surreptitious loading of modules and because I do not like the "surprises" of the later versions of openrc.
I suggest that the instructions for openrc users be changed to reflect the new openrc behaviour.
Same problem with virtualbox-modules-5.2.2
Andreas, please explain a way to check that modules was loaded twice. I have 1) /usr/lib/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf with modules names 2) /etc/conf.d/modules with added modules names And "cat /proc/modules" shows them only once. (I have sys-apps/openrc-0.34.11)
/etc/init.d/modules, before loading any modules from '/etc/conf.d/modules', first calls the script '/etc/init.d/modules-load' (which according to its description: "Loads a list of modules from systemd-compatible locations."), which looks for modules to load in these directories: "/usr/lib/modules-load.d /run/modules-load.d /etc/modules-load.d" Thus if you do not follows the post install advice and do not add the module names to /etc/conf.d/modules the modules will be loaded from '/usr/lib/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf' anyway. If you now add the virtualbox-modules to /etc/conf/modules, the init scripts will attempt to load the modules twice. Probably this is not possible but surely this cannot be a good thing. Anyhow, I no longer care about this, since I have gone back to openrc-0.17 which is not affected by systemd "mission creep". Also I have added INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/modules-load.d /usr/lib/systemd /etc/systemd" to make.conf to prevent surreptitious systemd stuff being added to my system.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ee6e64af62963985d572c17ce83471c16076b0fc commit ee6e64af62963985d572c17ce83471c16076b0fc Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-02-16 13:21:28 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-02-16 13:21:28 +0000 app-emulation/virtualbox-modules: Removed superfluous elog message. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/640392 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.24, Repoman-2.3.6 app-emulation/virtualbox-modules/virtualbox-modules-5.1.32.ebuild | 3 --- app-emulation/virtualbox-modules/virtualbox-modules-5.2.6.ebuild | 3 --- 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-)
