GNU bug report logs - #39671
Something appears to disable linux kernel modules from loading.

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Joshua Branson <jbranso <at> dismail.de>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:12:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 39671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Joshua Branson <jbranso <at> dismail.de>
Subject: bug#39671: Something appears to disable linux kernel modules from loading.
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:50:06 -0500 (EST)

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On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> What does “cat /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe” return on the broken system?

/gnu/store/daq5zs7ni529zh3xxgyhidna52wa17js-modprobe

The contents of that file are:

"""
#!/gnu/store/1mkkv2caiqbdbbd256c4dirfi4kwsacv-guile-2.2.6/bin/guile --no-auto-compile
!#
(begin (setenv "LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY" "/run/booted-system/kernel/lib/modules")
       (apply execl "/run/current-system/profile/bin/modprobe"
                    (cons "/run/current-system/profile/bin/modprobe" (cdr (command-line)))))
"""

> I would expect 8b9cad01e9619f53dc5a65892ca6a09ca5de3447 to be suspect #1
> because it potentially leads to ‘LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY’ being unset in
> places where it used to be set before.

Based on the commit message, I would have expected that too, but 
205c1e04e04b9a9338c7219ff82bd13f000fb8c8 is the first bad commit for me as 
well. The above modprobe script is from a system at commit 
8b9cad01e9619f53dc5a65892ca6a09ca5de3447.

Best,
Jack
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