On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Adrian Chadd wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007, Paul Wouters wrote:
> For older OS'es, you run into this 100% nash/hotplug issue. As a work
> around i use a "killall" in the rc.sysvinit script. I'm not sure what
> the real bug is, but I guess nash/hotplug are making some invalid assumptions
> about the capability of the kernel, and it should just abort instead
> of getting into this infinite loop.
>
> Since the fix is easy, I never delved into what it is actually doing. If
> there is an interest in fixing this bug, I could investigate.
Weirdly its with a fresh debootstrap'ed Debian etch (so not "old") Linux
install under FC6; etch under FC5 with an older FC5 2.6.18 kernel doesn't
trigger the nash CPU loop.
Maybe Debian is still using hotplug instead of udev? Try apt-get install udev
Paul