System Halt and udev Errors

HTS · Guru Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 410 Location: Bristol, UK

Well for a start 0.90 doesn't fix the issue. >=0.94 fix it.
Currently using sys-fs/udev-096-r1 but I guess you've already tried this one.

Dunno what/who could help you...
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lro402 · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 42

Thanks HTS. I emerged udev-096-r1 as you suggested and thought it may have fixed the udev runaway problem as it didn't reappear for a number of shutdowns. However it is now back again on most shutdowns so that has not fixed the problem for me.

But let me focus on the shutdown problem that immediately precedes the udev runaway. That is referred to earlier in this thread and described in detail in:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-474796-highlight-halt.html

The halt.sh script is calling stop_addon, ebegin, eend and start_volumes but can't find these commands so the shutdown just freezes for several seconds and usually, but not always, then begins the udev runaway scrolling on the screen. There is a related error on startup when checkfs calls start_volumes but cannot find the command - this is reported but doesn't effect the bootup. Have I somehow in the past failed to emerge a package that supplies these commands for halt.sh and checkfs to use? If so, what package contains these commands? I have run revdep_rebuild on my system and it reports that everything is OK with my installation. I do hope someone can supply an answer to this problem so I can get my system back to good health again.

Frank.

lro402 · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 42

I appear to have fixed my problem

As this thread suggests that this problem may arise from a number of causes the following fix may not work for everyone but it appears to have worked for me. I can't claim credit for this as it is hidden in another poorly named thread and credit should go to Waninkoko in that thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-467967-highlight-halt.html

I removed the /etc/init.d/ scripts halt.sh, shutdown.sh, reboot.sh and checkfs then emerged baselayout again and everything now shutdowns and boots up without any problems or messages. Emerging baselayout restores these scripts to /etc/init.d/ and the restored scripts no longer produce the errors I referred to in my last post on this thread. So the shutdown is now clean and fast

cd /etc/init.d
rm halt.sh
rm shutdown.sh
rm reboot.sh
rm checkfs
USE="unicode -bootstrap -build -static" emerge baselayout
etc-update (I had nothing to do here)

I am running baselayout-1.12.4-r6 and udev-096-r1 at present.

I hope this may be useful to other Gentoo users.
Frank.

cutty · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 7

Following the former post, thanks Iro 402, the problem disappears.

I have baselayout 1.12.4-r7 and udev-087-r1. In fact I think that the udev version isn't important. Btw it also solved me another problem, not described here, that produced an error during the start when the net interfaces failed to start.
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nirax · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject:

thanks lro, could fix the problem also with your solution.

baselayout install seems not mature enoug thogh ..
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pinojazz · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 2

Hi everyone, I got problems with udevd .When try to reboot or shutdown the machine , the procces stops with this message repeated on the whole screen :

nixnut · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject:

merged above post here.
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R4R · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

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