Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119044
Kudzu removes valid duplicate entries from modules.conf
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:43:29 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040315 Description of problem: If you have more than one if/else/endif constructs in modules.conf, kudzu considers the else and endif lines as duplicates and removes them, thus breaking the config. The construc I noticed this with is this: if -f /etc/modules.conf.d/*.conf include /etc/modules.conf.d/*.conf endif if -f /etc/modules.conf.d/`uname -r`/*.conf include /etc/modules.conf.d/`uname -r`/*.conf endif Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.99.65-1 - 1.1.36.1-1 at least How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add the example construct in description to modules.conf 2. Run kudzu so that it detects new hardware and rewrites modules.conf Actual Results: The second endif disappears breaking modutils. Expected Results: The endif should stay there.. Additional info: Also affects at least RHL 9 and RHEL 3. The new modutils in FC2-test doesn't support if-else-endif constructs and based on a quick check isn't affected by this in any other way either, but something to keep in mind for the future there too.
Created attachment 98820 [details] Don't consider lines beginning with else and endif as duplicates Very low priority since these type of constructs are rare so this is more FYI. In any case this patch fixes the problem for me.
This almost certainly won't be fixed, as modprobe.conf doesn't support conditionals, and that's where all the new development is.
Yup, wasn't expecting this to be fixed, reported just to 1) have data available about existence of such an issue 2) point out that checking if similar issue can happen in the new modprobe.conf format (yes I know it doesn't support conditionals but just perhaps some other option/command) wouldn't hurt