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Bug#524940: module-init-tools: modprobe starts fork-bombing on executing oss-compat postinst



On Apr 22, Matthew Lockner <mlockner@iastate.edu> wrote:

> Since its postinst is my means of demonstrating the problem, then of  
> course removing the package will prevent the problem from appearing, at  
> least in this context.
You can remove it and manually run modprobe.
Anyway, I am quite sure that there is some crap in your
/etc/modprobe.d/, double check everything.
And be sure to delete /etc/modprobe.conf.

> It is noteworthy that while I was obtaining the output you requested  
> below, I had another hard lockup, and upon rebooting, there were similar  
> problems during startup.  The screen displayed the same kinds of  
> warnings at points, and the OOM killer was stepping in at points to kill  
> modprobe and its child processes.
The warnings are harmless.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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