Bug 5751 - module setup appears broken in rc.sysinit
Summary: module setup appears broken in rc.sysinit
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-09 03:54 UTC by doug
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 1999-10-10 04:32:47 UTC
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Description doug 1999-10-09 03:54:20 UTC
There appears to be broken code in "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit",
in the section that is setting up the module stuff, just
before depmod runs.

The maintainer of initscripts needs to take a close look at
this. I haven't analyzed the possible effects, but it's
likely that the symlinks
	/boot/System.map
	/boot/module-info
will not be set correctly under some circumstances, causing
failure of depmod, modprobe, and consequently, of modules.

These two lines appear to be missing backticks:
AS DISTRIBUTED IN RH6.0:
  177:       mtag=grep -l "$ktag" /lib/modules/*/.rhkmvtag
2> /dev/null
  179:          mver=echo $mtag | sed -e 's,/lib/modules/,,'
-e 's,/.rhkmvtag,,' -e 's,[       ].*$,,'

Presumably they should read something like:
SUGGESTED FIX:
  177:       mtag=`grep -l "$ktag" /lib/modules/*/.rhkmvtag`
2> /dev/null
  179:          mver=`echo $mtag | sed -e
's,/lib/modules/,,' -e 's,/.rhkmvtag,,' -e 's,[
].*$,,'`

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-10 04:32:59 UTC
This has been fixed in the latest initscripts in Raw Hide, and also
in 6.1...


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