Fixing this one: [andyrtr at workstation64 trunk]$ LANG=C man modprobe.d man: can't open /usr/share/man/modprobe.conf.5: No such file or directory and that was one reason why man-db always recreates the database, see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14467 . please signoff module-init-tools 3.10-2 -Andy