On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:56:11PM -0400, cmcveigh@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I am running FC3 on an IBM T42 laptop. Early this morning I was running > system-config-network to change some network settings. The system- > config-network app became very erratic in it behavior so I had to kill > its process. I next rebooted my machine (normaly less that a 1 minute > process) and it took 19 minutes to reboot. Where was it spending most of its time ? > After many hours of > searching I found that I had a corrupted /etc/modprobe.conf file. I was > 185 MB in size and full of gibberish. *wow*. That's disturbing. If you can repeat this, please file a bug against system-config-network > My question is how can I regenerate a correct modprobe.conf file for my > machine? Can I simply reinstall the package that creates it? (rpm -q > --whatprovides /etc/modprobe.conf does not return anything), Are there > scripts in place that recreate the file? (I did try > running /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf but all it seems to want to do is > convert a modules.conf file to a modprobe.conf file). rm -f /etc/modprobe.conf rm -f /etc/sysconfig/hwconf kudzu should get you a recreated modprobe.conf Dave
