From: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Subject: Re: random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:58:04 +0000
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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).

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.
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