After pckgs update, "ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally!" at bootup

Brunno Pessoa brunnopessoa at gmail.com
Tue Oct 19 04:42:04 UTC 2004


Hi everyone!

I have just updated all of the packages installed in my Fedora distro,
including the Linux kernel, to 2.6.8-1 from 2.6.7-1. I made it using
Fedora's distro yum, which automatically identifies updated packages
available on the server.
 
I was using Fedora Core 3 Test 1 (2.90) and updated to Fedora Core 3
Test 3 (2.92).
 
The problem is that I always receive the following message in the boot
up process:

----------------
Uncompressing Linux... OK, bootin the kernel
audit(<some number> ) : initialized
Red Hat nash version 4.1.17 starting
ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally!
ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally!
INIT: version 2.85 booting
Setting default font (larcyrheb-sun16): [OK]
----------------

And then the booting process continues.
 
This is the description in the udevstart man page:
 "udevstart walks trough the sysfs device tree and calls udev to
create the nodes for every valid device found. It can be used to fill
a empty device directory with nodes for all devices currently
available on the system."
 
It seems all the devices in the system are recognized after running
this program. Before updating the packages, I had installed some
drivers to use the non-Intel Linux support Pentium Centrino (for
wireless LAN). By now on, all my setup seems to be useful, because the
Centrino is no longer identified in the system.
 
Does anyone can help me in this issue?
 
Tks a lot!




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