[SOLVED] UDEV Failed at boot

balasarius · 2012-05-17 00:09:36

hey all,

I'm having an issue with udev at boot failing and although I can get to the login prompt and login a whole load of hardware is undetected including network graphics and sound. I am able the start udevd without any apparant issue once logged in but unfortunatley I'm not all that clued up on how to find and load driver short of loading modules I've been told to for reasons X,Y and Z.
I am having to use a live disc to get online and send this post and pull log data from my system.

things I've tried include re-installing udev, kmod and the kernel plus reading alot on udev and how it is ment to work (starting to get major eye strain now)

here is a paste of my boot log
http://pastebin.com/K5L3pbm1

my messages.log
http://pastebin.com/qzEziaxY

and finally my dmesg log
http://pastebin.com/F4aSdfKe

I'm not sure which of these logs will be useful but if any more information is need let me know...

and Thank You in advance.

Last edited by balasarius (2012-05-17 20:33:10)

falconindy · 2012-05-17 00:20:51

udev and initscripts versions are relevant. Chances are one of them isn't updated and the other is.

balasarius · 2012-05-17 15:04:36

Hmm... OK Thanks. will check that out this evening when I'm back in-front of my machine and will let you know the result

balasarius · 2012-05-17 20:20:51

Thank you falconindy that did the trick I'm now back up and running. You're a Star

nmlibertarian · 2012-05-29 08:12:13

And it helped me too....but leaves me curious as to why the initscripts are not updating ?

Medium length story: I had to upgrade to current using the official iso (current release) dated last fall.
I tried c couple of recent releng isos and they failed to mount my usb partition as the targets. This was
also the case for the latest archbang iso as well. i.e. To do an install to a usb stick I had to use the old core.

All of that, albeit time comsuming, was more or less something I could plod along with on my own. The failure
of the dep-chain to pick-up on installing the latest initscripts was surprising as it required that I find the information
in this email thread.

balasarius · 2012-05-29 09:44:34

I know what you mean nmlibertarian you would think if it is so essential for udev and initscripts to be updated in tandem that pacman would have some means to check and execute that as part of the update.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-05-17 00:09:36

[SOLVED] UDEV Failed at boot

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