163831 – generate-modprobe.conf recurses over and over hanging up system

Bug 163831 - generate-modprobe.conf recurses over and over hanging up system

Summary: generate-modprobe.conf recurses over and over hanging up system

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 149426

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High critical
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-01-25 22:31 UTC by Justin R. Pessa
Modified:	2007-01-26 07:38 UTC (History)
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Description Justin R. Pessa 2007-01-25 22:31:51 UTC

When installing x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9746, generate-modprobe.conf "updates modules by hand" (whatever that means) and proceeds to call itself recursively, eventually using all the system memory. This is a dual-core Opteron with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The system hangs at "generate-modprobe.conf is rebuilding modules by hand" or something.

Expected Results:  
The process to complete.

I had sync'd and updated world then noticed that gdm was no longer starting. I reemerged nvidia-drivers and then ran into this problem.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-26 07:38:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 149426 ***