Bug 712291

Summary: Very long udev initialization on ASUS EeePC 901
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Didier <d.bz-redhat>
Component: biosdevnameAssignee: Narendra K <narendra_k>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: harald, jonathan, jordan_hargrave, matt_domsch, mebrown, narendra_k, praveen_paladugu
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Didier 2011-06-10 07:03:07 UTC 
A stock ASUS EeePC-901 takes very long to boot, mainly attributable to the udev initialization taking 45 seconds.

dmesg excerpt :
[   10.332584] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   55.772314] udev[437]: renamed network interface eth0 to p33p1


Versions :
kernel-PAE-2.6.38.7-30.fc15.i686 (module eeepc_laptop loaded)
udev-167-4.fc15.i686



Remark : the next substantial time lapse (29 seconds) may or may not be related : (excerpt from /var/log/messages)

Jun 10 08:36:00 xxx dbus-daemon: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1' unit='rtkit-daemon.service'
Jun 10 08:36:00 xxx dbus-daemon: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1'
Jun 10 08:36:29 xxx gnome-session[1521]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Jun 10 08:36:30 xxx dbus-daemon: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UDisks' (using servicehelper)
Jun 10 08:36:30 xxx dbus-daemon: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UDisks'
Jun 10 08:36:30 xxx dbus-daemon: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' (using servicehelper)
Jun 10 08:36:30 xxx dbus-daemon: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-10-20 16:08:51 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-10-20 16:11:02 UTC 
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Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-10-20 16:13:07 UTC 
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Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-10-20 16:17:34 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 5 Harald Hoyer 2011-10-21 09:42:38 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> [   55.772314] udev[437]: renamed network interface eth0 to p33p1

Oh, this is most likely a biosdevname bug
Comment 6 Narendra K 2012-01-18 18:33:36 UTC 
Hi, This issue seems similar to bug 707583. Could you please test biosdevname-0.3.11 and let us know the results ?
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-07-18 13:31:56 UTC 
biosdevname-0.4.1-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/biosdevname-0.4.1-1.fc17
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-07-19 09:00:36 UTC 
Package biosdevname-0.4.1-1.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing biosdevname-0.4.1-1.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-10778/biosdevname-0.4.1-1.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-07-26 22:31:20 UTC 
biosdevname-0.4.1-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.