Re: [tlug] udevd on Gentoo hanging on boot

[Stuart Bouyer <stuart_bouyer@example.com>]

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.
>
> <snip>
You can try editing your boot line in grub to add

"gentoo=noudev"

That will allow you boot without udevd starting - you'll have no devices
though

Stu