On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 02:16 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 04:51 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 00:36 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Feb 13, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > When using kmod on this system, not all the same modules are being > > > Please try 5 from experimental or http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ . > > > > udevadm settle seems to hang. Judging by the accelerating fan, modprobe > > was very busy doing *something*, but I kind of wanted my system back so > > I didn't investigate further. > > It seems I can break out of this with ^C, but that leaves a couple of > modprobe processes still busy-looping. > > The problem seems to be related to sound modules, as the processes left > around were both 'modprobe snd-ioctl32' and the real sound driver > (snd-hda-intel) was not loaded. > > I suspect that this configuration line from > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf somehow triggers the bug: > > # Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules > install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet > snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }
Certainly, commenting that out seems to fix the problem. But that line is installed by the alsa-base package, worked before, and seems to be reasonable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein
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