Corrupted modprobe.conf file

[Arthur Pemberton]

Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 21:07 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>>*wow*. That's disturbing.
>>If you can repeat this, please file a bug against system-config-network
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>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:
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>alias eth0 8139tooalias eth0 8139tooalias eth0 8139tooalias eth0
>8139[... and so on for about ten megabytes or so]
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>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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Maybe an application needs to be setup to handle interfacing with 
/etc/modprobe.conf by other applications in a more safe way.