modprobe issue

efanning · 06-02-2007, 03:37 PM

I'm not real sure what I did, but I believe it happened after I installed alsa-utils via Synaptic. Now when I boot, it gets about a quarter of the way through the boot up process and it beeps at me. I removed the usplash so I could see what it's beeping at and it happens when I get the following error:

Code:

WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/aplay line 1: ignoring bad line starting with 'RIFF��'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/aplay line 2: ignoring bad line starting with '4%Dcnm��rymPgip����������Ȼ��
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/aplay line 3: ignoring bad line starting with ''
%J��': /etc/modprobe.d/aplay line 4: ignoring bad line starting with '

When I attempt to uninstall aplay, it says it needs to uninstall GDM, and other vital packages. Is there a way that I can resolve this? Thank you for any assistance.

Eric

avarus · 06-02-2007, 04:28 PM

Evening,

I don't run Mepis myself, but I can offer some suggestions. Firstly, I'm not sure if you mean that the computer beeps but continues as normal or that it beeps and stops dead or does something in between. In any case it looks like you are able to get to a command prompt.

Firstly, get into a root shell and cd to /etc/modprobe.d then do 'file aplay'. You should get back "ASCII text" or similar. If not, what do you get? Take a look at the file with 'more aplay'. Does anything look amiss? If you look at the other files in that directory you will see the sort of commands that should be in these files.

My general rule when I see that a file I don't know about is causing problems is to simply delete it, or more prudently shunt it into another directory, then reboot and see what happens. If the problem appears fixed then you can try installing alsa-utils again.

Hope that helps,

TIM

jschiwal · 06-02-2007, 05:42 PM

There seems to be a problem with the /etc/modprobe.d/aplay file. Have you examined it?
Is it in an encoding that you don't support?
Do you maybe have a bad drive?

efanning · 06-02-2007, 08:11 PM

Thank you for the replies. I'm not running Mepis anymore, I've switched over and testing Ubuntu 7.04. I need to update my info. Anyhow, I did the "file aplay" and this is what I got back.

aplay: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 8000 Hz

When I do a "more aplay" I get a screen full of encoded data.

Sorry I wasn't very specific earlier, when it boots, I get the beep and it continues on and I still have sound and my Xsession comes up just fine. So it's really not hindering anything, it's just one of those things that I know is there, so it's in the back of mind.

Eric

jschiwal · 06-02-2007, 08:32 PM

That is definitely not something that belongs in /etc/modprobe.d. The alsa installation probably was bad.