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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Re: delay at starting udev
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:45:23PM -0400, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I experience a major delay (about 5 min on dual CPU 3GHz machine, RedHat 
> AS v4) at system boot-up at the point of "Starting udev:". The references 
> to it I was able to find say that it was fixed in udev releases years ago. 
> Is anything known about this problem?
> 
> >uname -a
> Linux <...> 2.6.11.7 #2 SMP Tue Apr 19 16:46:25 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 
> GNU/Linux
> 
> >rpm -q udev
> udev-039-10.8.EL4

That version is _very_ old, so odds are it has been fixed since then :)

I suggest you ask Red Hat about this if you are having problems with
RHEL 4, as they are the ones that support it.

Good luck,

greg k-h