[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 Updated kmod-r8168 Release [Version 8.024.00]

[Alan Bartlett]

On 30 May 2011 02:21, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Dag Wieers wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Alan Bartlett wrote:

>>>  Sorry Dag, I cannot reproduce your errors.

>> ----
>> grep: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: No such file or directory
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48030: line 9: [: -gt: unary operator expected
>> sed: can't read /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: No such file or directory
>>   Cleanup        : elrepo-release
>> error: %postun(kmod-r8168-8.016.00_NAPI-2.el5.elrepo.x86_64) scriptlet
>> failed, exit status 2
>>
>> ----
>>
>> The problem is caused by the %postun script of
>> kmod-r8168-8.016.00_NAPI-2.el5.elrepo.x86_64
>>
>> I just copy&pasted everything so you could see what I did.

> Also, despite that error, the kernel module works fine.
>
> But my CentOS 5.6 system does not have /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, but does
> have /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, so it looks like the current package
> is affected by this issue as well :-/

Sorry but somehow you had an out-of-date (version 8.016.00_NAPI),
pre-release package installed on that system. Normal end-users would
have had version 8.023.00, prior to the updated package . . .

You also have incorrect files in your /etc/modprobe.d/ directory --

[quote]
[root at Build64R5 ~]# ll /etc/modprobe.d
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  833 Sep 30  2010 blacklist-compat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  810 Dec 15 09:23 blacklist.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   83 Mar 18 13:10 blacklist-firewire
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   16 May 29 11:32 blacklist-r8169.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   23 Sep 23  2010 disable-ipv6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6111 Sep 30  2010 modprobe.conf.dist
[root at Build64R5 ~]#
[/quote]

Alan.