ODD NVIDIA GUI booting problem.

Brian Gerst bgerst at didntduck.org
Mon Sep 13 13:59:47 UTC 2004


Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:31:06 -0400, John Ellson <ellson at research.att.com> wrote:
> 
>>Jim Martin wrote:
>>My theory is that the NVIDIA installation script is writing something
>>into /dev which is no longer
>>persistent across boots.    I'm fairly sure it was a recent udev change
>>that introduced the bug, not kernel-2.6.8-1.541.
> 
> 
> i drop back to an older kernel like 535 and the problem goes away.
> Hard to blame it on udev.
> AND i see the exact same thing happening with the provided sg driver.
> Ive been seeing it for weeks now...
> 
> -jef
> 
> 

It really is udev.  The initrd for the older kernel contains the version 
of udev/initscripts that was present when that kernel was installed.

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				Brian Gerst





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