I just downloaded and installed modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2.1.i386.rpm. Shortly after that, my system crashed and I had to reboot (this probably had nothing to do with this RPM, but one never knows). During rebooting, there were a lot of complaints about loading sound stuff. This is what is in /var/messages. There was more on the screen, stuff about already loaded, that I cannot find anywhere now. Nov 22 00:07:34 valinux sound: Starting sound configuration: Nov 22 00:07:34 valinux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Nov 22 00:07:34 valinux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Nov 22 00:07:34 valinux sound: aumix: error opening /dev/mixer: No such device Nov 22 00:07:34 valinux sound: sound Nov 22 00:07:34 valinux sound: Nov 22 00:07:34 valinux rc: Starting sound succeeded My /etc/conf.modules is unchanged, and the part relating to sound is as follows: alias sound sb pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 I run RealPlayer 7.0 as a plug-in to Netscape 4.76 and it no longer works. It complains that it cannot open the sound device and that some other application may be using it. This is a VA Linux StartX-MP machine with dual 550MHz Pentium IIIs in it running what started out as Red Hat Linux 6.0, but now has a lot of RPMs in it.
I guess this is a duplicate of 21232 :-( -Frank
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21232 ***
Are you sure you had the latest modutils package for the errata? It looks like the broken modutils package moved /etc/conf.modules to /etc/modules.conf, then when you upgraded to the fixed modutils package things didn't get moved back.