[Ac] hdparm hangs often during starting (udev issue?)

Tomasz Wittner twittner at o2.pl
Sun Feb 11 15:23:23 CET 2007


On Sun 11. of February 2007, Tomasz Wittner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Nearly every two booting I'm forced to press reset button on my workstation
> (or sometimes is possible Alt+PrintScreen+S/B) - starting hangs during
> hdparm invokation. Because hdparm is called right after starting udev I
> suspect that udev (v. 079) doesn't finish its job and hdparm maybe hangs
> because of "queued kernel/udev events"[1] are not handled yet.
> Newer udev (v. 104) has binary called udevsettle which is used in
> start_udev (PLD Th) or /etc/init.d/udev (Debian unstable f.e.) scripts. As
> is said in [1]man udevsettle is used for delaying script execution until
> queued kernel/udev events are handled.

I've just upgraded udev to 104 (and uClibc to 0.28.1) on my desktop (Ac) - 
both built from HEAD - everything seems to work properly.

-- 
Tomasz Wittner


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