Description of problem: Booting with kernel > kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 I get a long wait when udev starts and then a timeout, then no network or sound. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8 (this is the latest I've tried; all kernel updates I've tried since (but not including) 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 have had (what appears to be) the same problem How reproducible: completely Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot with kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 2. wait while udev times out 3. login and observe state of machine Actual results: Network manager reports that there is no interface eth0 the volume control applet indicates that there is no sound Expected results: no timeout from udev, eth0 and sound should work Additional info: Machine is an IBM thinkpad X30 26724XG eth0 is driven by e100
Created attachment 300275 [details] dmesg output, booted with debug on the command line
Can you try adding "udevdebug" to the boot options?
Created attachment 300894 [details] /var/log/messages extract command line udevdebug I can, and I get *lots* of logging on the console, but with debug and udevdebug on the command line, unless I boot single, the system never (for as long as I've waited) gives me a shell. Booting single, I get a shell, but dmesg contains none of the udevdebug messages (even if I set udev_log="debug" in /etc/udev/udev.conf. The attachment is with udevdebug (but not debug) on the kernel command line; this is the best I could get. Scroll lock during udev start-up shows that nearly half of the messages are "udev_rules_iter_label: moving forward looking for label 'libsane_rules_end'" (if I wrote that down correctly). /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules is as packaged in sane-backends-1.0.18-17.fc8 Ironically, if booted with debug udevdebug, although I don't get a login shell I do get eth0 started -- it responds to pings, but there's no useful service running.
This bug seems to have disappeared by Fedora 9