F12 beta i686 live CD hangs after starting udev

[James Laska]

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:56 +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
> 2009/10/31 TK009 <john.brown009 at gmail.com>:
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:48:17PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
> >> 2009/10/31 TK009 <john.brown009 at gmail.com>:
> >> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:09:31PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
> >> >> 2009/10/31 Jurgen Kramer <gtmkramer at xs4all.nl>:
> >> >>
> >> >> In my case starting udev takes almost a minute in order to start. In
> >> >> f11 it needs about 3 secs.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>  There is no floppy on my laptop and there's nothing about it in the
> >> bios. What should i disbale???
> >
> > When I saw 'takes almost a minute' I was reminded of this
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#System_pauses_during_boot_for_over_a_minute_at_.27Starting_udev.27
> 
> I already read this but the problem should be somewehere else. I
> haven't experienced this in f6 up to f11. It happens for the first
> time in f12. So this should be a regression.

Perhaps try to see what udev is doing that's taking a while.  Anything
in /var/log/messages (or dmesg) during live image initialization?  

If you can mount the live image filesystem from an already running
system, try editing the file '/etc/udev/udev.conf' and change:

  udev_log="debug"

This should enable debugging output for udev on startup.  I've not tried
this directly, but that might help identify what udev is doing that's
taking time during boot.

Thanks,
James
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