Re: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs could call modprobe with --use-blacklist?

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 04:01:23AM -0700, Jayen Ashar wrote:
> output from pstree:
> `-aptitude,6493,root
>     |-{aptitude},30685
>     `-dpkg,30843 --status-fd 48 --configure linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686
>         `-frontend,30844 -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686.postinst configure 2.6.32-5
>             `-linux-image-2.6,30850 /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686.postinst configure 2.6.32-5
>                 `-sh,30855 -c update-initramfs -c -t -k 2.6.32-trunk-686 >&2
>                     `-update-initramf,30856 /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -c -t -k 2.6.32-trunk-686
>                         `-mkinitramfs,30858 /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686.new 2.6.32-trunk-686
>                             `-mkinitramfs,32566 /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686.new 2.6.32-trunk-686
>                                 |-modprobe,32567 --set-version=2.6.32-trunk-686 --ignore-install --show-depends amd64_agp
>                                 `-awk,32568 /^insmod/ { print $2 }

this looks fine.
 
> 
> looks like it's stuck in a loop (strace attached):
> 
> open("/sys/module/amd64_agp/initstate", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7869000
> read(3, "coming\n", 4096)               = 7
> close(3)                                = 0
> munmap(0xb7869000, 4096)                = 0
> nanosleep({0, 100000000}, NULL)         = 0
> open("/sys/module/amd64_agp/initstate", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7869000
> read(3, "coming\n", 4096)               = 7
> close(3)                                = 0
> munmap(0xb7869000, 4096)                = 0
> nanosleep({0, 100000000}, NULL)         = 0
> open("/sys/module/amd64_agp/initstate", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7869000
> read(3, "coming\n", 4096)               = 7
> close(3)                                = 0
> munmap(0xb7869000, 4096)                = 0
> nanosleep({0, 100000000}, NULL)         = 0

please reportbug on module-init-tools
with cc on debian-kernel@lists.debian.org


thanks