Problems with recent updates (with fix)

I had problems after updating recently where absolutely nothing could get modprobe'd, so I tried manually modprobing things and received errors about lines in /etc/modprobe.conf.dist. I tried commenting out the lines and it just made errors with other lines. I ended up just renaming /etc/modprobe.conf.dist and modprobe started working fine again. Don't know if this will help anyone but having modprobe is certainly a good thing.