[ adding mika on cc ] On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:38:03PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: > Looking at: > http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gi/tools/draklive?revision=1.116&view=markup > > there's an interesting line which sleeps while the usb storage scanning > kernel thread is running (search the page for usb-stor-scan). > > The usb scanning thread is called usb-stor-scan and the scsi scanning > threads are called scsi_scan_NUM (AFAIK). > > So, as a workaround for Etch until this is fixed (presumably by upstream > changes to udev and/or the kernel), how about changing the following lines > in the udev initramfs script: > > udevtrigger > udevsettle || true > > to something like this: > > udevtrigger > udevsettle || true > while ps | grep -q "[usb-stor-scan]"; do > sleep 1; > done > while ps | grep -q "[scsi_scan_.*]"; do > sleep 1; > done > udevsettle || true
mika, you could reliable trigger that race by using grml2hd with lilo. could you please test aboves proposed solution and tell us how it works out? thanks a lot for your patience and big kudos for David!!! -- maks
