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Hi,

I m trying to unload some of my numerous running modules:

Code:

pierre@debian:~$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

autofs4                18052  1

thermal                12944  0

fan                    4236  0

button                  6680  0

processor              17584  1 thermal

ac                      5132  0

battery                9740  0

ipv6                  229892  6

af_packet              20872  2

ipt_state              2304  18

ipt_REJECT              6528  4

ipt_limit              2688  6

ipt_LOG                6272  6

ip_conntrack_ftp      72240  0

ip_conntrack          32908  2 ipt_state,ip_conntrack_ftp

iptable_filter          3072  1

ip_tables              16896  5 ipt_state,ipt_REJECT,ipt_limit,ipt_LOG,iptable_filter

eth1394                19976  0

pcspkr                  3816  0

ohci1394              32004  0

ieee1394              100408  2 eth1394,ohci1394

snd_intel8x0          33068  0

snd_ac97_codec        59268  1 snd_intel8x0

snd_pcm_oss            48168  0

snd_mixer_oss          16640  1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm                85384  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss

snd_timer              23300  1 snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc        11144  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

gameport                4736  1 snd_intel8x0

snd_mpu401_uart        7296  1 snd_intel8x0

snd_rawmidi            23204  1 snd_mpu401_uart

snd_seq_device          7944  1 snd_rawmidi

snd                    50660  9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

soundcore              9824  1 snd

pci_hotplug            30640  0

intel_agp              20512  1

agpgart                31784  1 intel_agp

ehci_hcd              27908  0

uhci_hcd              29328  0

usbcore              104164  4 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

b44                    19972  0

mii                    4864  1 b44

yenta_socket          19200  0

pcmcia_core            63028  1 yenta_socket

hw_random              5652  0

capability              4872  0

commoncap              7168  1 capability

joydev                  9536  0

mousedev                9996  1

evdev                  9088  0

p4_clockmod            5000  0

tsdev                  7168  0

speedstep_lib          4356  1 p4_clockmod

freq_table              4356  1 p4_clockmod

cpufreq_userspace      5336  2

psmouse                17800  0

ide_cd                38176  0

cdrom                  35740  1 ide_cd

genrtc                  9332  0

reiserfs              209872  3

ext3                  109544  0

jbd                    54552  1 ext3

ide_generic            1664  0

ide_disk              16768  5

piix                  12448  1

ide_core              125028  4 ide_cd,ide_generic,ide_disk,piix

unix                  26036  125

font                    8576  0

vesafb                  6688  0

cfbcopyarea            3840  1 vesafb

cfbimgblt              3200  1 vesafb

cfbfillrect            3712  1 vesafb

First of all, I can't make depmod work:

Code:

pierre@debian:~$ su

Password:

debian:/home/pierre# depmod gameport

WARNING: Can't read module gameport: No such file or directory

debian:/home/pierre# depmod joydev

WARNING: Can't read module joydev: No such file or directory

debian:/home/pierre#

/etc/modules contains some of the modules I want to load:

Code:

debian:/home/pierre# cat /etc/modules

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.

#

# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are

# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with

# a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.



ide-cd

ide-disk

ide-generic

psmouse

cpufreq-userspace

p4-clockmod

This is the head of my /etc/modules.conf:

Code:

### This file is automatically generated by update-modules

#

# Please do not edit this file directly. If you want to change or add

# anything please take a look at the files in /etc/modutils and read

# the manpage for update-modules.

#

### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/0keep

# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!

# This file is not marked as conffile to make sure if you upgrade modutils

# it will be restored in case some modifications have been made.

The update-modules man page says that the function is obsolete and runs update-modules.modutils
The update-modules.modutils man page says that it generates the /etc/modules.conf from the files in /etc/modutils/

Here is my /etc/modutils/:

Code:

debian:/home/pierre# ls /etc/modutils/

total 44

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  432 2004-12-19 02:40 0keep

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  254 2005-04-20 23:21 actions

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4178 2005-04-20 23:21 aliases

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8265 2005-02-24 14:59 alsa-base

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  97 2005-03-31 12:55 apm

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  392 2006-01-09 12:01 arch

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  28 2005-09-12 00:55 i2c

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  41 2006-01-09 16:13 linux-sound-base_noOSS -> /lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modutils.conf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  303 2006-01-09 09:37 lirc

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  139 2004-12-19 02:40 paths

debian:/home/pierre#

I ran the update-modules command and restarted my computer, and none of my modules would get loaded.
From tty1 I ran update-modules.modutils and update-modules again, and restarted my computer and everything was back to normal.

I have a debian sarge upgraded to unstable with the default kernel

Question:
What should I do/read?

Thanks for your help