Corrupted modprobe.conf file

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:56:11PM -0400, cmcveigh at adelphia.net 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