boot stops when "Starting devfsd"

[dirkie]

Hello experts,

I have a weird problem. When my Gentoo systeem boots it hangs a this phase:

* Starting devfsd
Started device management daemon for v1.3.25 for /dev

Nothing happens after this line.

When I abort with Ctrl-C the systems continues booting for a little while and then stops when performing "Checking root filesystem"

I have 3 partittions on my system hda1, hda2 and hda3. Hda1 = boot, hda2 = swap, hda3 = root

I booted with a resque floppy and I had no problems mounting hda1 en hda3. I performed e2fsck on hda1 en hda3 and no problems were found.

I have the following questions for you:

-Why does my system hang when starting devfsd?
-What things should I check in order to solve this problems

I have googled for about 2.5 hours and I am desperate...

Kind Regards,
Dirk

[dirkie]

Problem is solved. I was playing with daemontool (Dan Bernstein stuff) earlier this day. I found out that I had a directory /etc/devfs.d/supervise.

The supervise directory is new. I removed the supervise directory and the problem is gone. Linux is booting perfectly again.

[CompWiz]

Thanks for the post. I had the exact same problem.