strange corruption of module config when i try booting with acpi=off

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tir, 21.06.2005 kl. 04.23 skrev Joe Desbonnet:
> I apologise in advance for this rather ranty email, but I think its
> relevant to the dev list because I believe hit on some bug.
> 
> I (foolishly) try to get FC4 to power manage my laptop (Thinkpad
> T41p). I don't understand how to do "apm -s" with ACPI (can someone
> tell me how? -- because I can't find it documented anywhere).
> 

echo "3" > /proc/acpi/sleep works for me. But i should probably stick it
in a script...

> So I boot with "acpi=off" boot option so that I can use the more
> intuitive apm system.
> 
> On boot system-config-display asks for root password (I've never seen
> that before). I hit return a few times because I'm not interested in
> reconfiguring my display (especially at boot time?!).
> 

Thats kudzu. It does that to me every time i run it from the terminal -
and if i haven't done "xhost +" first, it tells me i couldn't connect to
the display (running as root, from gnome-terminal). Its sortof a bug...
I should probably report it.

> Boot goes bad -- lots of things don't load. In particular pcmcia stuff
> -- so I don't have networking any more. Oh oh. Ok, no problem I just
> reboot with default options. No good: my system is still hosed.
> **Something has reconfigured/corrupted my system setup without my
> permission.**
> 
> It has something to do with modues. Nothing unusual has changed in
> /etc/* at the time of the incident, but all the modules.* files in
> /lib/modues/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 now have no data (just the header
> comment line).
> 
> Is this a bug, or did I do something incredibly stupid that warranted
> my system to be rendered unusable?
> 
> Joe.