Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144930
System lockup on "checking for new hardware"
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:28 EST
Description of problem: The latest kernel installed by up2date causes the system to completely lockup on boot when "checking for new hardware" I have used up2date to successfully update the kernel to 2.6.9.1.681_FC3. Also the source code for each kernel as it is updated needs to be made available so i can get my winmodem to work Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel 2.6.10-1.737-FC3 How reproducible: On boot consistently Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
kudzu is probably causing some broken module to get loaded. Can you do the following please.. 1) mv /sbin/modprobe /sbin/modprobe.exe 2) make new /sbin/modprobe script which is the following.. #!/bin/bash echo loading module - $@ sleep 1 /sbin/modprobe.exe $@ 3) chmod +x /sbin/modprobe now it should print the name of the broken module just before it hangs Once you've done this, you can mv /sbin/modprobe.exe /sbin/modprobe
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.