[Solved] - Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]

Tleilaxu · 2010-02-28 13:06:32

Hello,

I didn't find any major issues with the new kernel or the nvidia drivers, and so did a full upgrade (pacman -Syu).

The kernel was updated to the latest version, and the 195.36 (?) nvidia drivers were upgraded, along with some other normal stuff. Now when I boot it just sits at "Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]" forever on both the new kernel and the fallback.

I have two Nvidia 8800GT in SLI if that makes any difference - I saw a thread or two talking about an onboard intel gcard driver, so it shouldn't be that... KVM or something.

Not really any idea how to troubleshoot this! I assume I have to block certain things from starting (perhaps the new nvidia driver?) but I have no idea how.

Thanks.

Last edited by Tleilaxu (2010-03-01 16:06:57)

totsilence · 2010-02-28 16:18:46

Same issue here!
Can't boot anymore after upgrade to latest nvidia drivers. I also have a SLI setup, though I can't imagine that making any difference, as the second card isn't used.

anonymous_user · 2010-02-28 16:37:00

Can you boot if you rename your xorg.conf?

Tleilaxu · 2010-02-28 18:48:01

Booting off the arch CD I assume? I'll try that a little later - cw deadline in a few hours.

Maybe totesilence could try it and report back.

Mr.Elendig · 2010-02-28 19:29:03

try acpi=off

totsilence · 2010-02-28 19:36:23

Actually I fixed it, but I'm afraid I can't tell you what exactly happened

I used a live cd, chrooted into my system.
I installed nouveau driver and edited my xorg.conf to use this driver. System booted fine after that, although I didn't start X.
I then went on to re-edit nvidia back into my xorg.conf, and also reinstalled a couple of recently updated packages with pacman. After that I started X, and it worked.

On next boot the issue was gone.

Sorry if the info is not really in depth

EDIT:
Actually the problem reappeared! I also updated my grub and played around with the vga= parameter. It seems that the boot log output on the screen stops at "Waiting for udev uevents to be processed" IF I don't provide a vga= parameter. However, if I do specify a parameter, I'll get a normal boot.
However, I can now get back in to X, but I can't back out into console (framebuffer) anymore after X is up... So more issues remain, for me. This all seems related... Probably to nvidia 195.36.

EDIT #2:
It's confirmed. The evil-doer is nvidia 195.36, rollback to 190.56 brought my framebuffer back and made everything like before.

So I think you could fix your system by rolling back to nvidia 190.56 (from a Live CD or Arch install cd). The package should still be in your /var/cache/pacman/pkg unless you cleaned that up recently.

For info on how to chroot:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chroot

For info on how to roll-back packages:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dow … g_Packages

Cheers!

Last edited by totsilence (2010-02-28 23:20:18)

Tleilaxu · 2010-03-01 12:45:00

Hi,

Thank you very much for the links, that's excellent! Very busy with Uni at the moment and have had to resort to my windows laptop as I didn't have time to troubleshoot it! Now I can get back to arch. D:

Cheers!

markz79 · 2010-04-27 00:16:24

I'm seeing the same problems. Adding vga=0x0369 resolves the long delay from "Waiting for Udev uevents". But then I can't switch back to a terminal with CTRL-ALT-F1 (it hangs). I can log out and log back in using GDM, though, which I couldn't do without the vga line.

bogdan2011 · 2012-01-27 17:53:16

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1048436

xomikronx · 2012-01-27 19:06:06

Upgraded yesterday and it has been giving me the same issue.

To fix, I had to downgrade back to kernel 3.1.

If anyone is using Nvidia drivers, you will have to delete the new 290.10-2, or uninstall it.

Then downgrade to 3.1

then reinstall nvidia 290.10-1.

Hope this helps.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-02-28 13:06:32

[Solved] - Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]

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