Re: 2.6.12 + devices on initrd

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Janne Karhunen wrote:
> On Sunday 19 June 2005 17:37, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> 
> 
>>So it defaults to 5 second wait, but it really doesn't wait that
>>long. It waits less than a second prior to giving up. Umm .. what
>>could cause 'sleep' not to sleep .. umm, a signal. But where could
>>it get that? ARGH. So i'm guessing adding additional sleeps or
>>even using that 'udev_timeout' switch doesn't help.
> 
> 
> So much for my sense of time (once playing with Linux, anyway).
> 
> Giving it 20 second timeout via udev_timeout  does help, it
> goes on booting. But for some reason udev is _really_slow_ on
> creating devices with 2.6.12. Creating just that one device 
> takes more than 10 seconds. Let alone when it keeps on booting 
> with SUSEs highly-parallel init; udev is so slow that it seems 
> to break everything :/

Sorry, I should have noticed this earlier:

 > FWIW In the udev 058 announcement, Greg said:
 >
 > "Note, if you are running a kernel newer than 2.6.12-rc4 (including
 > the -mm releases) and you have any custom udev rules, you MUST upgrade
 > to the latest version to allow udev to work properly.
 > This change happened
 > because of a previously-unrealized reliance in libsysfs on the
 > presence of a useless sysfs file that has recently been
 > removed.  Hopefully the libsysfs people will be releasing a new
 > version shortly with this change
 > in it for those packages who rely on it."
 >
 > Just a reminder because I bet many people will get caught out by this!

So please upgrade udev.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov


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