Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58465
Neat changes /etc/modules.conf in an erroneous way
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; T312461) Description of problem: On neat, when I press the "Apply" button, or the "Yes" button on the "Do you want to save your changes?" dialog box, it changes /etc/modules.conf. In this process, it mangles comments and some options in /etc/modules.conf. I attached below a diff of modules.conf before and after neat changes it. Notice that: 1) I have some commented-out "alias 3c59x-something" entries from the time that I was developing a patch for the 3Com 3c556 (now in the 3c59x driver). These entries were un-commented and changed into "alias 3c59x". 2) I like to have more information printed about the adapter, so I have a "options 3c59x debug=2" line. This line disappeared. 3) I have two sets of entries for the sound configuration, for ALSA and OSS; I leave the set for the drivers that I'm not using commented-out. The sound-slot-0 line on the ALSA set was un-commented (I'm not using ALSA, so its entries were commented-out; the line for OSS was further below, so it is not in the diff). That's doubly weird: I'm configuring the network, not sound... [fred@polestar ~]# diff -u /etc/modules.conf.before /etc/modules.conf.after --- /etc/modules.conf.before Thu Jan 17 22:01:43 2002 +++ /etc/modules.conf.after Thu Jan 17 22:13:41 2002 @@ -1,14 +1,13 @@ -#alias eth0 3c59x-556-Qk +alias eth0 3c59x #options 3c59x-556-Qk debug=2 -#alias eth0 3c59x-55x-2217 +alias eth0 3c59x #options 3c59x-55x-2217 debug=2 -#alias eth0 andrew-3c59x +alias eth0 3c59x #options andrew-3c59x debug=2 -#alias eth0 3c59x-2.2.18-pre16-1 +alias eth0 3c59x #options 3c59x-2.2.18-pre16-1 debug=2 alias eth0 3c59x -options 3c59x debug=2 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 @@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ #alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0 ## The line below makes rc.sysinit start alsa before ## /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound in Red Hat 7.0 -#alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio +alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio ## OSS/Free portion - card #1 #alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss #alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add the following lines to /etc/modules.conf: #alias eth0 3c59x-556-Qk alias eth0 3c59x options 3c59x debug=2 #alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio 2. Run neat, and press the "Apply" button. Actual Results: Entries are changed (see diff above) Expected Results: - Commented-out entries remain commented-out - "options 3c59x debug=2" remains Additional info:
Can you try the version at http://people.redhat.com/teg/neat/ ?
Better yet, I tested redhat-config-network-0.9.10-2.noarch.rpm on the updates, which according to the Changelog is 0.9.10-1 in http://people.redhat.com/teg/neat/ plus "final errata version built and published". For short, the problem persists. (There's even a new bug, see bug 58513... And I have one more, coming in next week. Please feel free to curse me :-)
Thank you! Bug fixed in CVS
Tried redhat-config-network-0.9.20-1.i386.rpm in http://people.redhat.com/teg/neat/. The problem has been only partially corrected. Here is the new diff. Now it's changing the parallel port and IrDA... :-( --- /etc/modules.conf.before Thu Jan 17 22:01:43 2002 +++ /etc/modules.conf Fri Mar 29 23:46:59 2002 @@ -8,10 +8,8 @@ #options 3c59x-2.2.18-pre16-1 debug=2 alias eth0 3c59x -options 3c59x debug=2 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc -options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 ## ALSA configuration #alias char-major-116 snd @@ -47,7 +45,6 @@ # IrDA # Warning -- this is a test alias irda0 nsc-ircc -options nsc-ircc io=0x02f8 dongle_id=0x09 irq=3 dma=0 alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
Created attachment 51587 [details] My /etc/modules.conf. I hope that helps.
ugh... found the bug... someone swapped the string.find() arguments in Conf.py :( should be fixed in 0.9.22 and later
Available at http://people.redhat.com/teg/neat/
OK, I tested it under redhat-config-network-0.9.30-1 and it worked nicely (changed only whitespace on /etc/modules.conf). Thanks!!! (Be sure to take the correction to Red Hat 7.3... :-)