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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: 2,6.26-rc4-git2 - long pause during boot
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:15:33 -0700
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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.

thanks,

greg k-h