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CMoH
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Location: Timisoara, Romania
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 Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: Udev timeout too short on startup of slow systems |
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Hello.
I've set up an old computer as firewall on a small home network, and following some upgrades it failed to start. Following some debugging, reconfiguring etc, I've found that the problem is that udev wouldn't finish initializing /dev, thus /etc/init.d/checkroot failed because no /dev/hda1 existed yet. Entering single mode and quickly starting udevmonitor still showed events flowing.
I've fixed this by increasing the timeout in /lib/rcscripts/addon/udev-start.sh, function populate_udev. There is a while that waits for /dev/.udev/queue to disappear, or a $loop to reach 300. Increasing this to 600 fixed my system.
I suggest adding the timeout as a configuration variable in /etc/conf.d/rc (or similar). Or should I post this as a bug? |
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thesnowman
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Joined: 08 May 2003
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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You could try an unstable baselayout. I'm using sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r6 on one system and the populate_udev function looks like this (which is different to the current stable one):
| Code: | populate_udev() {
# populate /dev with devices already found by the kernel
if [ $(get_KV) -gt "$(KV_to_int '2.6.14')" ] ; then
ebegin "Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents"
local opts=
[[ ${RC_COLDPLUG} != "yes" && $(udev_version) -ge "96" ]] && \
opts="--no-scan-bus"
/sbin/udevtrigger ${opts}
eend $?
else
ebegin "Populating /dev with existing devices with udevstart"
/sbin/udevstart
eend $?
fi
# loop until everything is finished
# there's gotta be a better way...
ebegin "Letting udev process events"
/sbin/udevsettle --timeout=60
eend $?
return 0
} |
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CMoH
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you. Glad to see it's already fixed  |
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