Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 156776
ifup hangs during bootup
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:53:42 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-2 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: after a yum update roughly 4 days ago, my box couldnt boot up anymore. It brings up eth1 but then the ifup of an xDSL interface hangs indefinitely (for hours if left alone). Booting via init=/bin/bash and fixing up the interface to not be brought up during bootup solves the problem - 'ifup Provider' works fine after a full bootup. The problem is fully reproducible otherwise. i'm now running yesterday's devel packages and the problem didnt go away. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.10-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Additional info:
If you add -x to the invocation of ifup, where does it hang?
things further deteriorated today - now it says 'MAKEDEV: directory already exists' (or something like that, serial console doesnt work for whatever reason) and then hangs at the 'enabling hardware' (?) step. With selinux=0 it boots up just fine, and i dont get the xDSL hang either.
Marking as a duplicate; this appears to be related to a udev bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156862 ***