Re: modprobe hangs?

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 20:08:00 EST


On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:04:58 -0500 (EST),
buddy@dookie.net wrote:
>i'm running 2.3.41 on an asus K7M w/ an athlon 500.
>
>For some reason, modprobe hangs for an absurdly long time when loading
>modules. The particular modules i'm using are bttv, tuner, and
>msp3400. At first i thought modprobe was failing, but after a while it
>loads just fine.

Probably a problem in the module_init routines. To confirm, please
install the latest strace (http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/strace/)
and "strace -rf -o /var/tmp/modprobe.strace modprobe bttv". Mail
modprobe.strace to me (kaos@ocs.com.au), not to the list.

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