Crashing at boot - UDev uevents

thegnu · 2006-04-04 13:58:50

Hey everybody. I just two days ago did an Syu, and I haven't had much time to work on it until now, but my computer is F'd to high heaven.

At first I ran into the NVIDIA won't install issue, so I thought, Hell, I'll just downgrade the kernel from the pacman cache, and wait for the problem to get resolved. Only problem was that downgrading UDev had a cascade of other things I had to take care of. So I reupgraded (an -Su reinstalled everything from the cache)

Now, unless I pass grub the emergency tag, "Starting UDev Daemon" fails and the PC freezes (overnight) at Loading UDev uevents. I've read the txt file that comes with UDev 88-2, but it doesn't provide any insight.

I think I'm going to just do the downgrade thing for the time being, because this is frustrating and I need my computer. But I'm still curious as to what the hell might be going on.

Sander · 2006-04-04 16:45:25

I've heard this a lot already, and I haven't really read any explanation or solution yet. I'm still holding off any upgrades until the mirrors are synced properly (which, according to some reports in #archlinux, still hasn't happened ).

tpowa · 2006-04-04 17:06:29

perhaps your hang is also serial prot related, we had a bug about that on bugtracker, try to enable/disable serial ports in your bios.

thegnu · 2006-04-04 19:46:52

Every boot with that kernel gave me:
/var/log/errors.log

Apr  3 22:23:39 (none) PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:05:00.0
Apr  3 22:23:44 (none) agetty[2036]: /dev/vc/2: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:44 (none) agetty[2037]: /dev/vc/3: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:44 (none) agetty[2038]: /dev/vc/4: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:44 (none) agetty[2039]: /dev/vc/5: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:44 (none) agetty[2040]: /dev/vc/6: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:44 (none) agetty[2035]: /dev/vc/1: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:54 (none) agetty[2045]: /dev/vc/2: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:54 (none) agetty[2048]: /dev/vc/3: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:54 (none) agetty[2049]: /dev/vc/4: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:54 (none) agetty[2050]: /dev/vc/5: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:54 (none) agetty[2051]: /dev/vc/6: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:23:54 (none) agetty[2052]: /dev/vc/1: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:04 (none) agetty[2053]: /dev/vc/2: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:04 (none) agetty[2054]: /dev/vc/3: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:04 (none) agetty[2055]: /dev/vc/4: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:04 (none) agetty[2056]: /dev/vc/5: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:04 (none) agetty[2058]: /dev/vc/1: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:04 (none) agetty[2057]: /dev/vc/6: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:14 (none) agetty[2059]: /dev/vc/2: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:14 (none) agetty[2060]: /dev/vc/3: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:14 (none) agetty[2061]: /dev/vc/1: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:14 (none) agetty[2062]: /dev/vc/4: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:14 (none) agetty[2063]: /dev/vc/5: No such file or directory
Apr  3 22:24:14 (none) agetty[2064]: /dev/vc/6: No such file or directory

and lspci -v:

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
    Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Unknown device 2118
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
    Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
    Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
    Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at d8000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
    Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
    Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
    Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting

So bleah. I'll think about it more in a bit. Just thought I might post relevant logs.

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#1 2006-04-04 13:58:50

Crashing at boot - UDev uevents

#2 2006-04-04 16:45:25

Re: Crashing at boot - UDev uevents

#3 2006-04-04 17:06:29

Re: Crashing at boot - UDev uevents

#4 2006-04-04 19:46:52

Re: Crashing at boot - UDev uevents

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