Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757769AbYFKTyA (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:54:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757394AbYFKTxt (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:53:49 -0400 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.177]:36667 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755553AbYFKTxq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:53:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=hgN5v3psMzFrqLvCVO4loaaKUM+Sz+/oXIIMLX7rCXC4ZyPIaOidpaoPnSVXKnitNH cH46BAKYnzIAYUCo+86wiJ4yTiEKF8y/9cWdonbeBdfqyJORvaKIn09t3QorswJUW5cq NOYlJP38cQk5/MXFs5MK9DkSVUHj0EZYoC0+U= From: Chris Clayton Reply-To: chris2553@googlemail.com To: Greg KH Subject: Re: 2,6.26-rc4-git2 - long pause during boot Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:51:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Richter References: <200806010415.05290.chris2553@googlemail.com> <200806111858.05114.chris2553@googlemail.com> <20080611191533.GA6189@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20080611191533.GA6189@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806111951.09275.chris2553@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1272 Lines: 39 On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:58:05PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote: > > Jun 11 17:48:13 upstairs udevd-event[1457]: wait_for_sysfs: wait for > > '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:0a.2/usb11/11-2/11-2:1.0/ho > >st4/ioerr_cnt' for 20 mseconds Jun 11 17:48:18 upstairs last message > > repeated 236 times > > This doesn't look good. It looks like a udev rule in your system is > looking for a file that will never show up. That's a short way to a > long delay time :) > > Try commenting out the rule that does this and see if things are fixed. > Yes, that's it. It's this rule, which appears as the second rule in the slackware rules file that's distributed with udev (and it's been there since udev-97 in August 2006): ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="ioerr_cnt" Commenting that rule out eliminates the pause in the boot and in the appearance of icons on my desktop. Thanks, Chris > thanks, > > greg k-h -- Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/