Talk:Modprobed-db

modprobed{-,_}db confusion

For some reason modprobed-db on my Arch boxes was named modprobed_db. Following the naming used on the wiki prevented it from functionning:

$ pacman -Qs modprobed
local/modprobed_db 2.21-2
    Keeps track of EVERY kernel module that has ever been probed. \ Useful for those of us who make localmodconfig :)

$ man modprobed_db
modprobed_db(8)                                                                                         modprobed_db(8)
NAME
       Modprobed_db - Store and recall every module probed on the system at will
...

$ modprobed_db store &> /dev/null
$ ls ~/.config
-rw-r--r--  1 kozaki  896 12 Dec 2014 modprobed-db.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 kozaki  126 22 avril 22:13 modprobed_db.conf  «- newly created and empty conf

Same for my crontab, and so on.

Went to the AUR and Graysky's Github repo and got it. Sorry for the changes. I'll add a notice to avoid further confusion

—This unsigned comment is by Kozaki (talk) 12:06, 23 April 2016‎. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

That's a 2.5 years old issue, the project has been renamed: [1], [2] -- Lahwaacz (talk) 12:54, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for 2013... @Kozaki, that version is nearly 3 years old as Lahwaacz points out. Please update to the current version. I do retain a symlink in /usr/bin to modprobed_db -> modprobed-db to allow for really old PKGBUILD files and scripts/crontabs etc. to still function; old config files should get moved over for you to ~/.config/modprobed-db.conf. Graysky (talk) 16:46, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

I just pushed v2.34 which actually do not provide that outdated symlink. It's been long enough. Graysky (talk) 17:02, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

I opened this talk about this wiki page, not about Graysky's handy utility itself:

> Sorry for the changes.

It's 2.5 years old... for those who manually replaced the package when its name changed, ie not all users. Especialy when the wiki kept silent at that time (Lahwaacz' first link above). As said the version on my Arch boxes was named modprobed_db and therefore would never show up when updating (it's not like I never updated these boxes for 2.5 years believe me). Therefore the couple of lines added to this page in order to let people know they must upgrade. Even if for a few my boxes are were proof it may well happen. kozaki (talk) 15:59, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

And how long would you propose that we keep the notice until we are absolutely sure that there is nobody using the old package? A hundred years? As Graysky says, it's been long enough.

As a sidenote, you might want to subscribe to notifications of the modprobed-db^AUR package to receive Graysky's kindly changelog on every new version.

-- Lahwaacz (talk) 19:36, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

command to run when building kernel

The original patch-like command never worked for me, as the build halts and never completes.

So I looked at the kernel doc and found out that, the recommended command there was prepended with

yes "" |

I made the change to include that. Because it DOES work for me with that, now solsTiCe (talk)

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/quickly-build-trimmed-linux.html

Add nls_ascii to recommended modules list?

After building linux_xanmod and rebooting, it failed to mount /boot due to an "IO charset ASCII" not found error. Adding the nls_ascii module into modprobedb.conf resolved this issue.

Would anyone object to adding nls_ascii to the list of recommended modules? As at least on my system, mounting /boot is impossible without it. Bazza (talk) 10:12, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't need it here because it is not built as a module but built inside the kernel. That's more your kernel config that is wrong, I think.

It's built-in for linux, linux-zen package at least, if not more. Talk to linux_xanmod maintainers, may be? solsTiCe (talk) 20:48, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks - for now I have added but with the caveat that it may only be required on linux-xanmod. It may save people using some kernels some difficulty - it would certainly have saved me some time! Also, on the EFI System Partition page it does mention these modules as being required so perhaps it is fair to do so here as well? But if you think it definitely should not be mentioned can certainly revert it. Bazza (talk) 21:52, 30 June 2024 (UTC)