[Fedora] Re: udev/hotplug?

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:54, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     Thank you Phil for the explanation.  My problem is that it's causing
> problems on one of my servers.  For one, when rebooting the server, it
> often hangs at the 'Starting udev' line.  I have to reboot it a time or
> two before it comes up.  Then, while booting, it will give me another
> error message, about 'udev_run_hotplugd' having exited abnormally - this
> error is also sporadic.
>
>     So, I'm trying to systematically eliminate things one by one to see
> if I can get to the bottom of the problem.  So I'm stuck at udev now...
> Not sure if I should just wipe the damned thing clean and re-install
> everything from scratch or what...

I know that an FC5 install was hanging on udev in the bootup. I don't use 
SElinux, as I don't know enough about it, so when the machine eventually 
booted up, I disabled SElinux. No problems after that with udev when booting.

I'm not recommending disabling SElinux if you need it, but it could be that 
something in it is causing the delayed booting problems with udev. I don't 
know, except that when I disabled it, I had no further udev delays on bootup.

Nigel.