Hello out there, after installing ubuntu on my new notebook yesterday evening, I encountered the same problem: Hang while booting. Reading this and the corresponding Bug 28439 I found out that it also seemed to be the udev problem mentioned here. 0) Boot up with init=/bin/bash in the kernel arguments 1) Run "udevd --daemon" 2) Check that /dev/.udev/queue does NOT exist -> no 3) Run "udevplug -s -v" -> hangs for 3 minutes after "/sys/devices/pci0000:00" 4) Report the last line before it hands 5) Wait for up to three minutes, to see whether it times out and drops you back to the shell.
I really thought that must be a kernel problem, and if I would have gotten the network to run I would have compiled a 2.6.18er kernel to try it out. So I commented out the /sbin/udevplug in /etc/init.d/udev to hopefully get network access ... but now the computer froze at the line "Configuring network interfaces". Then I thought about, what fragile features of the kernel could be switched off? Because ACPI support makes often problems with notebooks, I first tried that one. And Bingo! No hanging, all is booting OK. So now the only problem left is that I don't have the ACPI support for now. But that isn't too bad for the moment, because I am able to really work with my notebook ;-) Perhaps this simple solution will help others having this problem. Good luck, Bernd. -- Hang while booting https://launchpad.net/bugs/32597 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
