From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: 2,6.26-rc4-git2 - long pause during boot Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:24:42 -0500 Message-ID: <1213212282.3461.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200806010415.05290.chris2553@googlemail.com> <1212950276.3574.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200806102206.26818.chris2553@googlemail.com> <200806111858.05114.chris2553@googlemail.com> <20080611191533.GA6189@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:42543 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750794AbYFKTYt (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:24:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080611191533.GA6189@kroah.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Chris Clayton , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Richter On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:58:05PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote: > > Jun 11 17:48:13 upstairs udevd-event[1457]: wait_for_sysfs: wait for '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:0a.2/usb11/11-2/11-2:1.0/host4/ioerr_cnt' for 20 mseconds > > Jun 11 17:48:18 upstairs last message repeated 236 times > > This doesn't look good. It looks like a udev rule in your system is > looking for a file that will never show up. That's a short way to a > long delay time :) > > Try commenting out the rule that does this and see if things are fixed. Actually, there's something seriously wrong here: ioerr_cnt is a property of the device, not of the host (as in it will never appear under .../host4 but under .../host4/targetX:X:X/4:X:X:X/ioerr_cnt). Perhaps an investigation of why udevd-event is looking under host4/ is in order. James