Does modprobe timeout if device fails, or does it just hang there forever?

Electrode · 12-24-2002, 11:17 PM

I'm aware that the title doesn't make much sense, but it's the best I can think of. My problem is that I was trying to connect my USB 2.0 hard drive to my fileserver, and like it often does, it screwed up. After running modprobe ehci-hcd successfully, I ran modprobe usb-storage to register the drive. However, it hung up while scanning the partition table, leaving me with a totally hosed USB interface and an unusable terminal. The drive survived though.

So, do I have to reboot the system to restore sanity, or will this time out eventually?

oulevon · 12-25-2002, 11:26 PM

I don't know if it'll timeout, but you needn't reboot. Control c should kill the process and if that doesn't work Control z will suspend it. You could then type:

ps aux | more

and find the pid of the modprobe process. Then it's as easy as:

kill pid

where pid is the related pid to your modprobe command.

Electrode · 12-26-2002, 12:43 AM

Already did that. ctrl-c and ctrl-z do nothing, and kill -9 pid has no effect whatsoever.