Re: Surprising boot problem with modprobe and a stray named pipe

2009-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2009 January 14 16:07:37 Scott Gifford wrote: >But my other Etch machines didn't have it, and eventually >it dawned on me: that directory is supposed to be somewhere else. It >looks like something (possibly minor filesystem corruption) It's just like I say everytime a box I administe

Surprising boot problem with modprobe and a stray named pipe

2009-01-14 Thread Scott Gifford
I had an interesting problem today. A friend called me up to say that after an update, his Etch box wouldn't boot amymore, and could I come by and take a look at it. It was hanging waiting for udev to settle, and udev was starting tons of modprobe processes that were just hanging. Indeed, bootin