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ux&lx

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Registered: 2008-11-23

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Loading UDev uevents => infinity

I have a strange problem. If I boot into Wannabe OS (windows) and restart computer, Arch boot process blocks every time on Loading UDev uevents. Some posts mentioned to blacklist Watchdog (iTCO_wdt) module, but this doesn't work for me. Luckily, I boot into Windows rarely, but I would like to solve this annoying problem never the less.

Last edited by ux&lx (2009-01-23 18:09:59)

ux&lx

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

Great, seems like i'm stuck with the problem and no one knows anything about it. Thats what you get when you play with Microsoft I have one more question. Since i upgraded to 2.6.28 kernel alsa has been acting odd. On every 3rd-4th system boot it doesn't recognoze my card and sets pc speaker as default output. This only happens with Arch kernel (on my custom kernel everything works fine).

Last edited by ux&lx (2009-01-25 09:37:51)

ux&lx

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

I'm posting new post on this topic because i don't want to open a whole new topic again. The problems that i mentioned above are still present and i STILL don't know what is wrong or what should i do. The problem with udev happens only on Arch and i haven't faced it anywhere else. Alsa is working normaly after last kernel update so i guess that this part is solved now.

Wittfella

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

Maybe check the bios settings.  I'm not sure if its still relevant, but there used to be a setting in alot of bios something to the effect of plug'n'play devices/interupt settings are configured by the bios or the OS.  If it is in your bios try toggling that.  I can't think of any other reason why running Windows would affect your Arch installation.

I had the same with my soundcard disappearing.  At the time I blacklisted pcspkr and it seem to fix it.  Maybe I can try it again with the kernel update, thanks for the info.

Inxsible

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

I had the same issue with udev. but blacklisting iTCO_wdt fixed it for me. Can you post your rc.conf?

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ux&lx

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

Thanks for the info guys. Here is the modules part of my rc.conf (I believe that only this part is relevant, i will post the whole file later if necessary):

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(!iTCO_wdt !bluetooth !ath5k !ipv6 !nvidiafb !joydev !ppp_generic !ipw2100 !ieee1394 !ohci1394 !lp !ppdev !parport !parport_pc)

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Inxsible

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

Thanks for the info guys. Here is the modules part of my rc.conf (I believe that only this part is relevant, i will post the whole file later if necessary):

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(!iTCO_wdt !bluetooth !ath5k !ipv6 !nvidiafb !joydev !ppp_generic !ipw2100 !ieee1394 !ohci1394 !lp !ppdev !parport !parport_pc)

So you are not loading any modules at all?

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ux&lx

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

No, i am loading modules except the ones shown in the part of rc.conf i posted (those are blacklisted and among them is iTCO_wdt, as you can see).

Duologic

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

ux&lx: I don't know for what you use windows, or what is going wrong with your system, but isn't it easier to use Virtualbox?

ux&lx

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

I use windows for C# programming and similar stuff for my faculty that I can't do in Linux. Of course that virtual system is easier if you don't have a 7 year old laptop with 512 Mb of RAM

ux&lx

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

Now that you mentioned VirtualBox i tried to install it (the version from archlinuxfr), but when i try to create a new machine i get an error (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED). Yes my user is in gruop vboxusers and i left the path for machines on default value, which means in my home folder. What's up with this??

SamC

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

Have you logged in and out, in order to make sure the groups are applied?

ux&lx

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Re: Loading UDev uevents => infinity

SamC: i did.
I solved the VirtualBox problem. The problem was in typing I made a mistake in typing while calling chown....