[arch-general] Kmod testing

[Myra Nelson]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 01:38, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
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> Fisrt Kmod experience, which spit out a lot of udevd messages, logged in, startx, openbox starts, then one locked up box. I was going to Ctrl Alt F2, log in, and do some work with udevadm but I had no keyboard of mouse control. I turned the box off then on to reboot, pacman -Rdd kmod pacman -S module-init-tools then reboot.  I've examined the boot log from the previous run and here is a sample.
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> Fri Jan  6 01:03:19 2012: udevd[310]: failed to execute '/sbin/modprobe' '/sbin/modprobe -bv acpi:LNXCPU:': No such file or directory
> Fri Jan  6 01:03:19 2012:
> Fri Jan  6 01:03:19 2012: udevd[393]: failed to execute '/sbin/modprobe' '/sbin/modprobe -bv acpi:PNP0C04:': No such file or directory
> Fri Jan  6 01:03:19 2012:
> Fri Jan  6 01:03:19 2012: udevd[334]: failed to execute '/sbin/modprobe' '/sbin/modprobe -bv acpi:PNP0C02:': No such file or directory
> Fri Jan  6 01:03:19 2012:
> Fri Jan  6 01:03:19 2012: udevd[324]: failed to execute '/sbin/modprobe' '/sbin/modprobe -bv acpi:PNP0401:': No such file or directory
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> I went back and read the messages from Dave and Dan to see if I'd missed anything and hadn't. After the install of Kmod, before I rebooted, I read the help message from kmod --help and there were commands listed for compatibilty mod with modprobe. I've already been triggering the udev rules after I boot to find my audio card but that wont work for this behavior because triggering the rules will simply look for /sbin/modprobe again. The kernel update came in at the same time, so the initrd images were rebuilt prior to rebooting.
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> For know I've put kmod in my ignore packages line in pacman.conf. Do the udevd rules need to be written to point to kmod with it's compatibility mode or is there another solution?
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> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Myra
> --
> Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

I left the complete message in on purpose. I've managed to solve(?)
part of the problem. I did miss one item in the messages from Dave and
Dan, to rename/move depmod.conf then put it back after the update.
However the blacklist files ending in conf don't get parsed. My bad.

Sorry for the noise but may me being an idiot and dumping noise on the
mailing list will help others that don't read well either.

Mya




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Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!