Re: 2.6.34 on Samsung P460: reset after"Waiting for /dev to be fully populated"

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:12:30 +0200 Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Problem: At boot time I see a final message
> 
> 	Waiting for /dev to be fully populated
> 
> then my laptop (Samsung P460) does a reset. The next
> boot doesn't work, so I have to power-cycle the laptop.
> 
> If I boot with "acpi=off", then 2.6.34 gets stuck instead.
> The last 2 lines are
> 
> 	TCP reno registered
> 	Net: Registered protocol family 1
> 
> Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated.
> 

ow, hard.

I assume that the "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" comes from
udev?  Greg, do you know what might trigger that?

Harald, I think the best (only?) way to fix this is for you to do a
bisection search.  http://landley.net/writing/git-quick.html has some
instructions.

It's a bit of a pain to do, sorry.
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