That's what it is. I'm quite a newb, I don't know where the scripts belongs, I'd try to re-emerge it otherwise. It happens whenever I issue modules-update -f (without --force I get, in verbose mode, 'Skipping /etc/modprobe.conf generation (file is newer than dependencies)' ), as well as whenever a newly installed module, e.g. nvidia, or changes alsaconf tries to put up require modprobe.conf update. Then I just get ps ax full of `/bin/bash /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf` processes which slowly hang my system. The only cure I was able to use was killall generate-modprobe.conf, and then the update fails with foll. message: /sbin/modules-update: line 358: 16068 Terminated TESTING_MODPROBE_CONF=${CFG_NEW_FILE} generate-modprobe.conf ${ASSUME_KV:+--assume-kernel=${KV}} >>"${tmpfile}" 2>"${tmpfile}.err" * Warning: could not generate /etc/modprobe.conf! [ !! ] * Updating modules.dep ... ..well, what else? I don't know if my emerge --info could help, I'll give it below. The only other strangeness related to modules was this: modprobe.conf has a line, from svgalib_helper: probeall /dev/svga svgalib_helper, which is the line modprobe always complain about: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 168: ignoring bad line starting with 'probeall' -------------------parts-of-emerge --info ------------------------- Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 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: 2.17, 2.17.50.0.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant-core" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CC="gcc" CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/.ccache" CCACHE_SIZE="4G" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -funroll-loops -ftracer" CG_COMPILER_EXE="/usr/bin/cgc" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -funroll-loops -ftracer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv"
this has nothing to do with gentoo infrastructure....kicking over to bug-wranglers.
*** Bug 151954 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149426 ***
