Re: random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*

From: Alistair John Strachan
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 14:58:24 EST


On Tuesday 19 February 2008 18:10:35 Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Primarily, the udev startup locks up. If I abort it, it just locks up on
> more or less every action after that. Some quick debugging showed that I
> had a whole bunch of modprobe processes sitting around. The new
> CONFIG_USB_ANNOUNCE_NEW_DEVICES setting makes every startup of udev lock up
> consistently on at least two machines. It does not seem to be the root of
> the problem as disabling the option just makes the bug very unlikely.

You're not alone, I'm seeing these intermittent hangs at init time on Debian
unstable at:

"Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" (udevsettle)

"Loading kernel modules" (which I assume is modprobe)

But, I'm not seeing any hangs in X11 (yet).

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Cheers,
Alistair.

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