Re: udev hang

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 08:35:59PM -0500, jnf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was told to post my query here just so it would be public/get archived 
> by the search engines. I recently installed udev under 2.6.6, I originally 
> had some problems with it, but as it turned out that part of it was an ID 
> 10 T error in that the default config used rules located in 
> '/etc/udev/rules.d' and '/etc/udev/permissions.d' [im on slackware, i 
> think the config/install mightve detected me as gentoo?], anyways my fault 
> i shouldve noticied that when i edited the config file. Noticing that 
> helped me figure out why udev refused to follow what I said to use for 
> permissions. Now I have a new and seperate problem, when I enable udev to 
> from boot, that is have it start on boot, I hang at:
> 
> echo 'udev: Creating initial udev devices nodes:'
> ... (comments removed here)
> /sbin/udevstart
> 
> Interesting to note is that if I boot with it enabled, then run the rc 
> script, everything works fine- and if my rules/permission files are misset 
> in the udev.config file, then it boots fine [just doesnt set the correct 
> perms to my devices]. Any idea's what would be causing this? I'm not sure 
> what information you all would like me to include,
> 
> $ udevinfo -V
> udevinfo, version 025
> 
> (I cant seem to figure out how to get the version from hotplug itself)
> $ ls hot*
> hotplug-2004_04_01.tar.bz2
> 
> hotplug-2004_04_01:
> (...)
> $
> 
> A thought off the top of my head is, I should be enabling this before 
> hotplug correct? rc.udev (start_udev) is called from my rc.S [system init] 
> scripts, just before I mount the other drives, just after sysfs is 
> mounted, and then hotplug isnt started until all the way into my rc.local 
> scripts; is that the correct order?

Did you take a look at the README that details how to add this to a Red
Hat distro?

What distro are you using?

thanks,

greg k-h


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