From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 07:18:08 +0000 Subject: Re: udev hang Message-Id: <20040519071807.GC20079@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id%62&alloc_ida84&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel