From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:14:09 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.6.12 + devices on initrd Message-Id: <42B58BC1.3020601@ums.usu.ru> List-Id: References: <200506191420.39355.Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200506191420.39355.Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&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