F11: kernel/boot hangs after creating initial device nodes, when plymouthd is started

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:14:11PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:15:48AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Yesterday I installed latest F11/rawhide. The default installed kernel
> > (2.6.29 something) works fine. 
> > 
> > I compiled custom 2.6.30-rc6 kernel, and created initrd for it, and tried
> > booting it. 
> > 
> > Booting process gets stuck at "creating initial device nodes". 
> > 
> > Any ideas? I assume that's during initrd execution.. 
> > Something missing from my kernel config? 
> > 
> > Any tips would be appreciated. 
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem? 
> 

I edited the initrd image, and added some debug echos. 
The command that hangs the initrd execution is this:

daemonize --ignore-missing /bin/plymouthd

Any ideas? 

-- Pasi