On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My back-up box has an irritating problem, which was discussed here > in a thread which ended 080731 (msg 73690) apparently unresolved. > > At boot, it says "populating /dev with existing devices thro' uevents ... ". > On this my everyday machine, it all goes successfully & very quickly, > but on the other it says "waiting for uevents to be processed" > & takes a very long time to finish whatever it's doing ( c 2 min ). > Both machines have Udev-124-r1 & I copied /etc/udev/rules.d/* > from this one to the back-up & rebooted it, but without any change. > > Was this problem ever resolved ? Does anyone have suggestions ? > > -- > ========================,,============================================ > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
If your backup box never sees hotplug events you can get away with a static /dev ... or you can go through and see which device/module/rule/etc is taking a long time and adjust things to work around that. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
