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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:33:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640612312033o2ef6621cub3c7160c9ffc7d14@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612312019.33664.bss03@volumehost.net>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-01  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-31  9:11 [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine Marco Calviani
2006-12-31 19:12 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-01  2:19   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-01-01  4:33     ` Richard Fish [this message]
2007-01-01 11:17       ` Strong Cypher
2007-01-01 11:31         ` Marco Calviani
2007-01-04  3:20           ` Richard Fish
2007-01-01 11:28       ` Marco Calviani
2007-01-01 16:01         ` Richard Fish
2007-01-01 16:43           ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2007-01-01 16:49             ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
2007-01-01 16:53             ` Strong Cypher
2007-01-01 17:20           ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-01-02  9:19           ` Marco Calviani
2007-01-02 10:46             ` Strong Cypher
2007-01-02 13:41               ` Marco Calviani
2007-01-02 14:55                 ` Strong Cypher
2007-01-03 14:40                   ` [gentoo-laptop] " Marco Calviani
2007-01-03 14:40                     ` Marco Calviani
     [not found]                     ` <c52221f0701031052k78757e5er24022077e7699326@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-03 19:17                       ` [gentoo-laptop] " Marco Calviani
2007-01-03 23:17                         ` Strong Cypher
2007-01-04 16:20                           ` Devon Miller
2007-01-04 19:35                             ` Strong Cypher
2007-01-07 19:38                               ` Marco Calviani
2007-01-07 20:32                                 ` Strong Cypher
2007-01-07 22:59                                   ` Marco Calviani
2007-01-08 12:48                                     ` Strong Cypher

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