Corrupted modprobe.conf file

[Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV]

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.

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