What are your kernel version ? (uname -a)
What are your kernel package ? (gentoo-sources ???)

So perhaps a bug with a kernel you install recently

I have so hardware, that bug awfully with certain version of kernel, and do
hang up after a mount ...

so perhaps search in this way


2007/1/1, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>:
>
> On 12/31/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:12, "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org
> >
> > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...':
> > > On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >      some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since
> > > > then i've experienced complete freezes of the machine (nothing
> > > > responds, even external ping on the network) when USB devices are
> > > > mounted.
> > >
> > > All udev does is create device nodes...it cannot effect the operation
> > > of the device or cause the system to hang.
> >
> > Newer versions of udev (particularly 103) can also load kernel modules,
> > which definitely can effect the operation of the device and can cause
> the
> > system to hang.
>
> Well udev can load modules, but if that causes the system to hang, it
> is almost certainly a bug in that module.
>
> Marco, if you suspect this at all, you can set RC_COLDPLUG=no in
> /etc/conf.d/rc to completely disable module loading by udev.
>
> -Richard
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