Moin
I just got bitten by that bug today, too.
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 05:05:27PM -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> I bet you have these rules in your config:
>
> install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe
> --quiet snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }
...
> Marco, why are you shipping this with alsa? This creates dependency
> loops, relying on modules being inserted to be able to break the
> loops. It seems very fragile. What are you trying to accomplish with
> that config?
These are indeed useful, as it pulls in additional modules that give you
the full functionality of the sound system. The problem seems to be that
--ignore-install seems to get ignored by kmod version 5 resulting in
endless recursive loops trying to insert these modules.
But since 3.12 module-init-tools (and kmod, too) supports the softdep
keyword in modprobe.d/. After changing the above rules to use "softdep"
instead of "install", the bug was gone.
For example the rule qouted above using softdep should read:
softdep snd post: snd-ioctl32 snd-seq
I think this change could be done now in unstable, since "softdep" is already
supported by the module-init-tools in stable.
Ingo
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