i plugged my printer into my parallel port when the computer was turned on
and linux froze, so i rebooted and fscked was forced. when i finally got
back into the os, neither my sound blaster live module or my nic module get
loaded, as they should at boot up. i can load my nic mod with 'modprobe
sis900' and setup ifconfig and route and i can then get on the internet,
however neither sound nor network modules load at bootup.

nic mod is loaded in /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice and the sound mod is loaded from
rc.modules. when i execute /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice, the nic mod is loaded
with no problem, however when i execute /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, i get this:

Module dependencies up to date (no new kernel modules found).
../rc.modules: line 682: syntax error: unexpected end of file

not sure if that's a problem or not. how would i got about fixing this? i
don't even know what runs those scripts to begin with. btw, other scripts
in /etc/rc.d do get loaded like rc.local and such

i'm running a slackware v9.1 with a kernel 2.4.18. everything was fine
until my system crashed and so far, those are the only 2 problems i've
found

i'd appreciate any help,
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lucas
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Perl Coder since 2001
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:40:18 GMT, lucas <aolblowz@yahoo.com> wrote:

>i plugged my printer into my parallel port when the computer was turned on
>and linux froze, so i rebooted and fscked was forced. when i finally got
>back into the os, neither my sound blaster live module or my nic module get
>loaded, as they should at boot up. i can load my nic mod with 'modprobe
>sis900' and setup ifconfig and route and i can then get on the internet,
>however neither sound nor network modules load at bootup.

>Module dependencies up to date (no new kernel modules found).
>./rc.modules: line 682: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
>not sure if that's a problem or not. how would i got about fixing this? i
>don't even know what runs those scripts to begin with. btw, other scripts
>in /etc/rc.d do get loaded like rc.local and such
>
>i'm running a slackware v9.1 with a kernel 2.4.18. everything was fine
>until my system crashed and so far, those are the only 2 problems i've
>found
>
>i'd appreciate any help,

Reinstall the modules and/or kernel is always a foolproof way to fix
corrupted modules.

You are lucky you didn't damage your parallel port circuits.


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lucas wrote:
> i plugged my printer into my parallel port when the computer was turned on
> and linux froze, so i rebooted and fscked was forced. when i finally got
> back into the os, neither my sound blaster live module or my nic module get
> loaded, as they should at boot up. i can load my nic mod with 'modprobe
> sis900' and setup ifconfig and route and i can then get on the internet,
> however neither sound nor network modules load at bootup.
>
> nic mod is loaded in /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice and the sound mod is loaded from
> rc.modules. when i execute /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice, the nic mod is loaded
> with no problem, however when i execute /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, i get this:
>
> Module dependencies up to date (no new kernel modules found).
> ./rc.modules: line 682: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
> not sure if that's a problem or not. how would i got about fixing this? i
> don't even know what runs those scripts to begin with. btw, other scripts
> in /etc/rc.d do get loaded like rc.local and such
>
> i'm running a slackware v9.1 with a kernel 2.4.18. everything was fine
> until my system crashed and so far, those are the only 2 problems i've
> found
>
> i'd appreciate any help,

You have to look at line 682 to see what is there. Perhaps cut and
paste the pertinent section to here. It sounds like a script somewhere
was trying to update your rc.modules, perhaps a udev script, when your
system froze. Perhaps it wasn't frozen you weren't patient enough and
just shut down, some of the startup scripts can take a while. But, to
the point, you will need to fix this file.

mAineAc

Thanks for your posts. I took a look at /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and looked at
the end of the file, didnt' see anything suspicious. I then scrolled to
see if i could see anything wrong. I finally did. One of the if commands
didn't finish with a 'fi'. When I put that in there to finish the if
command and rebooted, everything worked. Kind of odd that it affected my
nic mod.

Thanks for your help.
--
lucas
-------------------------
Perl Coder since 2001
shift || die;
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> I took a look at /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and looked at
> the end of the file, didnt' see anything suspicious.
> One of the if commands
> didn't finish with a 'fi'. When I put that in there to finish the if
> command and rebooted, everything worked. Kind of odd that it affected my
> nic mod.

Not odd at all matey an' if ye understood the nature o' the monster
that be known as /bin/bash ye'd know that ye must have a fi ta end ye
if;then statement. Without it the shell hasn't a way o' knowin' when ta
stop! Ye'll be stuck there all day if'n ye haven't a fi for ye if.

- --
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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+Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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>> I took a look at /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and looked at
>> the end of the file, didnt' see anything suspicious.
>> One of the if commands
>> didn't finish with a 'fi'. When I put that in there to finish the if
>> command and rebooted, everything worked. Kind of odd that it affected my
>> nic mod.
>
> Not odd at all matey an' if ye understood the nature o' the monster
> that be known as /bin/bash ye'd know that ye must have a fi ta end ye
> if;then statement. Without it the shell hasn't a way o' knowin' when ta
> stop! Ye'll be stuck there all day if'n ye haven't a fi for ye if.
>
> - --
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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