From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim McCloskey Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:47:32 +0000 Subject: udev boot delay Message-Id: <20050304084732.GA4203@branci40> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I'm not sure if this is a udev issue or a Debian issue. After a recent upgrade to Debian testing on my laptop, which brought udev to version 0.053, I experienced the following problem. At the point in the boot-process where the init scripts run, I get this message: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It has been detected that the command: /etc/rcS.d/S04udev has been run from an interactive shell. It will probably not do what you expect, so this script will wait 60 seconds before continuing. Press ^C to stop it. RUNNING THIS COMMAND IS HIGHLY DISCOURAGED! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The init process does indeed pause for 60 seconds, but everything is fine at the end. I found this very puzzling, since I don't believe that udev has ever been run from an interactive shell on this machine. I looked in /etc/init.d/udev and found that the source of the warning was this: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- warn_if_interactive() { TTY=$(my_tty) if [ -z "$TTY" -o "$TTY" = "/dev/console" ]; then return fi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- And that explained to me why the problem arose only on the laptop and not on the desktop machines that I manage. On the laptop (but not on the others), I have in /etc/lilo.conf: append="console=/dev/tty6" And indeed when I commented out this line, the normal boot-behaviour was restored, the warning was not issued, and there was no 60 second pause. But surely this isn't reasonable behaviour? In this circumstance, the script is being run in a routine way and there is no real sense in which it has been run from an interactive shell. Jim ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&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