error due to udev update?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

L wrote:
> Hi
> my system is F11 (Linux  2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Tue Jul 7
> 20:45:17 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) on HP NX5000. It doesn't
> have floppy.
> 
> This morning, after update, the system boot was extremely slow. I
> found it hanged at "start udev ....".
> 
> The update include udev
> Jul 24 08:20:42 Updated: udev-141-4.fc11.i586
> 
> following are error from /var/log/messages
> 
> Jul 24 11:41:36  kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Jul 24 11:41:36  kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> Jul 24 11:41:36  kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> Jul 24 11:41:36  kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> Jul 24 11:41:36  kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> Jul 24 11:41:36  kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> Jul 24 11:41:36  kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> Jul 24 11:41:36  kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> 
> How to fix this?
> 
> I don't have floppy, is there way to disable modprobe floppy?
> 
> best
> 
> Y
> 
A quick and dirty fix you can try is to create a file in
/etc/modprob.d - put something like "blacklist floppy". You will
probably need to run depmod after making the changes.

I have not tried this, so let me know how it goes.

Mikkel
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