From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Wild Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:52:41 +0000 Subject: Hotplug *seems* to hang during boot] Message-Id: <4161A0FF.9010509@ntlworld.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi all, please note the emphasis on *seems*. I am not claiming there is a problem with hotplug. I think it's just that I have some problem, and it manifests itself when hotplug starts up. Also, none of my usual channels for getting help have yielded any useful advice, and I have run out of places to turn. To get to the point, what happens is: when the kernel boots up, it gets as far as: Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[953]: no sockets found! Activating hardware detection: /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug start and that's all she writes. The computer just remains hung, apparently starting up hotplug. This is with a 2.6.7 kernel from my Slackware 10 installation. If I use the default 2.4.26 kernel then it starts up OK. I haven't been able to get any help with this problem anywhere else, so I am fervently hoping that someone here will be able to give me some advice on what things to try/investigate. Some other information noticed: it seems (to me) quite likely that the message "cardmgr[953]: no sockets found!" is related to the problem, because when I boot the 2.4 kernel is says instead "cardmgr[80]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices". (This seems reasonable since it's a desktop PC). Another thing is, I can boot the 2.6 kernel if I give it the option "nohotplug", however, if I do this then the network controller is inoperative. (According to lspci it is an NVidia NForce2 ethernet controller). This is not an acceptable workaround. Please let me know if there's any other information I should supply, and also thanks very much for your time. Richard. P.S. I sent this message twice because the first time it did not seem to make it to the list. Perhaps I sent it too soon after subscribing. If I have erred please accept my apologies. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ 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