Re: modprobe -r crashing

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 03:46:05PM +0100, Paul F. Johnson wrote:

I'm trying to remove a module (I need to load sg and then reload aic7xxx to get my scanner running).

When I issue /sbin/modprobe -r aic7xxx the task window just sits there. The module is not removed

There are various modules which are not removable. Some are actually designed that way (use count never goes down to zero, regardless of what you will do). Of course of 'modprobe -r ...' is actually crashing it is a bug but this action is not guaranteed to work.

Your best bet seems to make sure that sg is inserted before aic7xxx is loaded. You can do that in /etc/modprobe.conf by something like that

install aic7xxx /sbin/modprobe sg && /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install aic7xxx

Michal