Re: [tlug] udevd on Gentoo hanging on boot

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Can you post the errors please?

Al Hoang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>     I'm really lost on this one...  Has anyone seen a case when booting 
> up a Gentoo box udevd just hangs and refuses to do anything?   I had 
> done an emerge system on around June 6th or 8th so it updated the 
> relevant system libraries to that point.
> 
>     What I can do is break out of starting udevd (so I assume udevd 
> never starts) which gets me to the point where it the system startup 
> messages show it trying to clear /tmp then it hangs there.  If I break 
> out of that I can get into system maintenance mode.   The version of 
> udev I'm using is 087 and I'm running kernel revision 
> linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.
> 
> So far I've tried:
> 1. A forced filesystem check (zero errors)
> 2. Re-emerging udev (for some reason emerge just hangs so this goes nowhere)
> 3. Sit and wait half an hour for udevd to finally clear up (no go)
> 4. Break out of starting udevd and waiting half an  hour for the 
> cleaning /tmp to finish up (I get dumped into a system recovery console 
> but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing at this point)
> 5. Reseating all the hard drive cables connections in the box (long shot 
> and no go)
> 
>     What I probably should try but haven't yet:
> 1. Start udevd manually by hand and see if that runs properly
> 2. Manually untarring a udev binary package that is made by portage.
> 
>     Any hints on where I should be looking for the problem?
>     My current workaround at the moment was to install Dapper on a 
> separate partition and see if it that helped  (it did).  As far as I can 
> see, Dapper has no issues with udevd starting up so I get the feeling I 
> must have borked something on my Gentoo box. 
> 
> 
> Alain
> 

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