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KWhat
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 Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: could not generate /etc/modprobe.conf! [Solved] |
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| Code: | * Updating /etc/modprobe.conf by hand ...
* Warning: could not generate /etc/modprobe.conf! [ !! ]
* Updating modules.dep ... [ ok ]
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I am unable to find a satisfactory solution.
Last edited by KWhat on Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:25 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Dottout
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:07 am Post subject: |
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probably you have something wrong in /etc/modprobe.d/
did you run update-modules with -f flags option? |
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KWhat
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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yes that is what causes this error, it appears that update-modules works ok but with the -f it causes the above error. Most the solutions i have already tried failed.
I.E. remove the /etc/mod* files, update-modules --kernel-version=2.4.22-gentoo-r5 and i cant seem to find much about it in the forums. |
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dwardo
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same probleme so I took out all the files in /etc/modules.d and them copied them back one by one (running update-modules force each time) until I found the culprit...
Guess who it was ?
nvidia (and this is installed by the nvidia package... I have not edited it... double checked by moving it + re-emerging nvidia-drivers)
So next step was to comment all the lines (only three in fact) out to find the culprit...
Guess which one of these :
| Code: | alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195
options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=27 NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=1
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I give it to you:
| Quote: | alias char-major-195 nvidia
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If i comment it out the "* Warning: could not generate /etc/modprobe.conf!" disappears for ever...
Seems I had 2 extra lines in /etc/modules.d/aliases (don't remember when they were added, but i removed them now):
| Code: | # Old nvidia support ...
alias char-major-195 NVdriver
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195 |
so char-major-195 was being aliased twice...
All is well for me...
dwardo |
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KWhat
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks dwardo!
I ran update-modules -f -v and found that snd-card-0 was causing an invalid dup alias. upon inspecting the file i noticed nothing out of the ordinary so backed up the modules.d/alsa file and reinstalled alsa-lib alsa-driver alsa-oss alsa-utils and its all better =)
Thanks again! |
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