Bug 264956

Summary:	module-init-tools-3.5: "modprobe -c" has duplicates
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sven Wünschmann <wu-s>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven Wünschmann 2009-04-05 11:21:29 UTC

Gentoo generates /etc/modprobe.conf from /etc/modprobe.d/* (and /etc/modules.conf the same way from /etc/modules.d/*)

modprobe in version 3.5 gets its configuration from /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*, resulting in duplicate entries in the form of:
----------------
$ modprobe -c
<CONTENT OF /etc/modprobe.conf>
<CONTENT OF /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist>
<CONTENT OF /etc/modprobe.d/pnp-aliases>
<CONTENT OF /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia>
<CONTENT OF /etc/modprobe.d/lirc>
<CONTENT OF /etc/modprobe.d/alsa>
alias acpi*:ACPI0003:* ac
alias acpi*:PNP0C0B:* fan
alias acpi*:PNPb006:* snd_mpu401
alias acpi*:WEC0517:* wbsd
...
----------------

As a consequence, /etc/init.d/alsasound from alsa-utils-1.0.18 tries to load the modules for the soundcard twice:
---------------
$ /etc/init.d/alsasound start
 * Loading ALSA modules ...
 *   Loading: snd-card-0 ...                              [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-card-1 ...                              [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-card-0 ...                              [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-card-1 ...                              [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-emu10k1-synth ...                       [ ok ]
 *   Loading: snd-seq-midi ...                            [ ok ]
 * Restoring Mixer Levels ...                             [ ok ]
---------------

There is a thread in the gentoo forum:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-749717.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Stage 3 install (containing module-init-tools-3.4)
2. "emerge --sync"
3. "emerge --uD world" (-> module-init-tools-3.5)
4. "update-modules"

Actual Results:  
"modprobe -c | sort | uniq -d" shows the duplicates

Expected Results:  
No duplicates from /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*

Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.2.5               
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:45:01 +0000                                                              
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39                                                                                    
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7                                                                                     
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7                                                                                   
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.3                                                                                      
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1                                                                                  
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.3.8                                                                                      
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63                                                                                 
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2                                                  
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3                                                                                    
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4                                                                                  
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-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/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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/lcd-filtering"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr chm cli cracklib crypt cups dbus doc dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde ldap libnotify lirc lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plasma png posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline recode reflection ruby sdl session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype ubuntu unicode usb vnc vorbis wmf x264 xattr xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul 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 expiresext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewritesetenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-06-22 23:53:07 UTC

the generated .conf files are deprecated.  no more plans to work on these.  same goes for modules.d/.

closing as fixed: upgrade your packages and stop using the .conf files