Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 137571
Boot hangs on startudev on FC3-rc2
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:53 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: After installing FC3-rc2, and a custom kernel so it will run under Virtual PC 2004, boot-up hangs on startudev. Pressing cntrl-c continues with boot and everything runs normally. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): udev-039-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC3-rc2 under Virtual PC 2004 2. Install custom kernel (see Bug #136018) 3. Boot up Actual Results: Hangs on startudev Expected Results: bootup normally Additional info: Workaround is to press cntrl-c when it hangs.
Created attachment 105944 [details] Screenshot of FC3-rc2 hanging on startudev
change udev_log="yes" to udev_log="no" in /etc/udev/udev.conf
That didn't work. But, rpm -i --force udev-032-8.i386.rpm did.
I had the same problem with installing FC3-rc2 on a Dell Inspiron 7000, as described in http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-October/msg02695.html. This happens with a plain install (not Virtual PC) and the default Fedora kernel (2.6.9-1.643) Changing udev_log="yes" to udev_log="no" in /etc/udev/udev.conf solved it for me.
Philippe, Changing udev_log didn't fix it here.
David, did ctrl-C work? Could you please try: http://people.redhat.com/harald/udev-039-10.FC3.1.i386.rpm
Harald, Yes ctrl-c will work. I installed the new udev rpm listed above in Comment #6. It worked, thanks. Any chance of getting that into FC3-final ?
Not to burst any bubbles, but udev still hangs startup here, it takes about 40 seconds, then it goes to the Initializing sequence, which is very slow as well. Might be caused by having switched off USB in BIOS entirely? Also noticed weird udev delay after adding extra RAM. why not compile a version with at least some echo-ing of the errors? (and release it for yum, there are many users with this problem)
OK, flashing asus BIOS solved it for me. My apologies (you may ignore and delete Comment #8 :)