Hi Mantas On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Mantas M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a /etc/modprobe.d/virtualbox.conf with the following contents: > > | softdep vboxdrv post: vboxnetflt vboxnetadp > > With module-init-tools, this would cause 'vboxnetflt' and 'vboxnetadp' > to be loaded automatically after 'vboxdrv'. With kmod 3-5 (Arch Linux > [testing]), `modprobe vboxdrv` appears to go into an infinite loop and > soon segfaults. > > `modprobe -n -v vboxdrv` keeps outputting a stream of: > > | insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-git+/extramodules/vboxdrv.ko.gz > | insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-git+/extramodules/vboxdrv.ko.gz > | insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-git+/extramodules/vboxdrv.ko.gz > | ... > > Backtrace: > > http://ompldr.org/vYzV2aw/kmod-3-5-arch.trace.xz > > If anybody wants a 12 MB coredump... > > http://ompldr.org/vYzV2bA/kmod-3-5-arch.dump.txz > > I also tried kmod-git ecced7d, same result.
Now it's capable of inserting the module because it properly breaks the dependency loop by checking the modules that are already loaded, just as modprobe from m-i-t does. However, for the dry-run options, we are not aborting on loop as m-i-t does. I'll fix this later. Thanks Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
