On 20.01.2010 10:39, Rémi Moyen wrote: > Hi, > > Until recently, I was still on a (quite old) 2.6.26 kernel (stock one > from testing). I also had an old version of udev (< 150). A few days > ago, I made a full update of my system. It first tried to upgrade udev > to 150, but when doing this complained that my current kernel had the > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option activated and that it was no more > supported and likely not to work at all. Although it was also trying > to install the new kernel at the same time (in which I believe this > option is no more activated), I guess since I was not the current > active kernel, this caused the error. > > So I first installed the new kernel (2.6.30), then wanted to reboot on > this kernel (so still with the old udev) in order to complete the udev > installation. When rebooting, the new kernel loads, one of the very > first thing it says is "udev: waiting for /dev to be fully populated", > but then nothing happens. After 1 min (and every minute after), I get > a message about the CPU being stuck since 60 secs, but even after 4-5 > minutes, nothing more happens. > > After rebooting on the old kernel (2.6.26), I installed the 2.6.32 > kernel from unstable. This one worked fine with the old udev. I > finished the update of udev (150) under this kernel, and rebooted > again: the 2.6.32 kernel works fine, the 2.6.30 has still exactly the > same problem. The 2.6.26 kernel, although still with the non-supported > kernel config option on, also works correctly. On all working kernels, > I get a bunch of warning about deprecated udev options that have to be > changed in various files, but apart from this, I don't see any > problems and all my hardware is working fine. > > Has anyone an idea as to what happens with the 2.6.30 kernel? I didn't > find anything in the bug reports nor on the web about this. > > Thanks!
I think it was the 2.6.31 kernel version where the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED bug was fixed. The kernel option had the sense inverted. I hope i remember correctly... didn't lookup the change-log again. best regards Mart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
