From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040217 Description of problem: is_available contains such code as: HOTPLUG=`cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug` echo "/bin/true" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug modprobe $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || return 1 echo "$HOTPLUG" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug Not good if modprobe returns a non-zero exit status, which it quite often does because of bug 116656. The code right above that: alias=`modprobe -c | awk "/^(alias|install) $1 / { print \\$3 }"` if [ -z "$alias" -o "$alias" = "off" -o "$alias" = "/bin/true" ]; then also fails with the new modprobe, per bug 116657. alias will be set to the module alias followed by /bin/true. In general, none of this should matter, since we'll have already loaded the modules, but if we haven't, this code will fail to do so. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.46-1.1
Created attachment 97977 [details] Patch that works around the behavioral changes in modprobe
Hotplug resetting fixed in 7.47-1; the latter shouldn't be an issue anymore.