On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 21:07 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > 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 I wasn't ever able to reproduce it (fortunately or unfortunately), but I've had the same thing happen to me once using one of the system-config tools (I *think* it was network). Each line in modprobe.conf was repeated over and over again. Every line in the file ended up like this: alias eth0 8139tooalias eth0 8139tooalias eth0 8139tooalias eth0 8139[... and so on for about ten megabytes or so] Symptom on boot was the same thing as the original poster mentioned - extremely long boot time. Opening up modprobe.conf in joe (emacs barfed on the file) and just deleting the repetitions fixed things. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry instructor / Mad scientist / Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
