From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933765Ab0EZBq2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 21:46:28 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34866 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759143Ab0EZBq1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 21:46:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:46:21 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Harald Dunkel Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH Subject: Re: 2.6.34 on Samsung P460: reset after "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" Message-Id: <20100525184621.89487735.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4BFB947E.9080509@aixigo.de> References: <4BFB947E.9080509@aixigo.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:12:30 +0200 Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Problem: At boot time I see a final message > > Waiting for /dev to be fully populated > > then my laptop (Samsung P460) does a reset. The next > boot doesn't work, so I have to power-cycle the laptop. > > If I boot with "acpi=off", then 2.6.34 gets stuck instead. > The last 2 lines are > > TCP reno registered > Net: Registered protocol family 1 > > Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated. > ow, hard. I assume that the "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" comes from udev? Greg, do you know what might trigger that? Harald, I think the best (only?) way to fix this is for you to do a bisection search. http://landley.net/writing/git-quick.html has some instructions. It's a bit of a pain to do, sorry.