Fwd: Re: film at 11: kernel update breaks udev.

[Richard Hally]

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Richard Hughes (hughsient at gmail.com) said:
>>> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 00:55 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>>>> Argh.  So why _are_ we doing our own special rules instead
>>>> of using the upstream ones ?  This isn't the only time I've
>>>> run into something like this with udev. 
>>> Our udev is about 100x times slower than upstream...
>>
>> I find it hard to believe it's 100x slower. I've done testing
>> of it with most of the not-needed-for-booting rules commented out -
>> execution time only dropped from ~5 to ~3.5 seconds.
> 
> This may be something unrelated (qemu bug?), but I feel I should mention-
> 
> When I boot livecds that I've spun with livecd-creator in qemu, the udev 
> step takes a painfully long time to complete, and even just hangs a fair 
> percentage of the time.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed anything like this?  At some point I'll do a 
> little more research and file a proper bug.
> 
> -dmc
> 
yes, on my rawhide box ( a P4 3.2Ghz with H/T) when booting I get to the 
"starting udev:" and it sits there for 2:44 (that is 2 minutes and 44 seconds)!
then continues booting.
HTH
Richard