Re: 2,6.26-rc4-git2 - long pause during boot

Chris Clayton
2008-06-11T19:53:47Z

On Wednesday 11 June 2008, 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/ho
> >st4/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.
>

Yes, that's it. It's this rule, which appears as the second rule in the
slackware rules file that's distributed with udev (and it's been there since
udev-97 in August 2006):

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="ioerr_cnt"

Commenting that rule out eliminates the pause in the boot and in the appearance
of icons on my desktop.

Thanks,

Chris

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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