On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:31:43AM -0800, babu walad wrote:
Folks,
During yet another complete re-install of Suse 7.1 I had the following problems:
1. Got errors during configuration of NIC and Sound cards. Never happened before. Error message in both cases was "Error writing to /etc/modules.conf file" which I couldn't understand till I quit Yast2 and looked at the modules.conf file and noticed it was missing! In my previous, installation, I had a modules.conf file with lots of stuff and lots of commented stuff, which is normal.
2. I reran Yast2 to configure the NIC card and got the same error. I quit, did a "touch modules.conf" and reran Yast2 and it completed configuring the NIC with no errors. I repeated for the Sound card and got the same old error again and the modules.conf file was gone!!
3. I re-created a modules.conf file and configured only the NIC card (LinkSys using the Tulip driver) and now it could not get an IP address from the router (DHCP mode) which worked perfectly fine a day earlier.
Any idea what is happening here? Can I reproduce a current and complete modules.conf file without re-installing everything? By the way, if I create an empty modules.conf file, after booting I get a message that the modules.conf is newer than the modules.dep file.
Do you have /tmp on a separate partition? If so, look for your lost modules.conf file in /tmp directory. Some suffix may be appended to it. At the point of getting "Error writing..." switch to another virtual console and copy the file to /etc/modules.conf. IIRC, this is a known bug on 7.1 and there should be something about it in SDB -Kastus
Help!
Babu