From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H1ExK-0002Hm-LZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:39:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l014ZbId030020; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 04:35:37 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l014XHnh024892 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 04:33:17 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so10461679nfb for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:33:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=suB3mvR3nyG8xY350X7WJ0Nz2h9l4Cyi3vZFoP4VKrtFc1QP/SRKJf66zeYRSB3aX1tijZx2bNssXH5yVItdRr359/s9gPVldJn7ODhgHYEpYj1WXcOMVZDbKpMUjxZ78AZPs4U3gVqM0wX5752nZQBaLK1XUtj/KQ5l1hvWTMg= Received: by 10.82.183.19 with SMTP id g19mr1074223buf.1167625997003; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.126.14 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:33:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640612312033o2ef6621cub3c7160c9ffc7d14@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:33:16 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine... In-Reply-To: <200612312019.33664.bss03@volumehost.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7573e9640612311112l367d06bfs1d969225089a08e2@mail.gmail.com> <200612312019.33664.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3647a51a8fbd38c5 X-Archives-Salt: c6bb9a9b-16ef-4065-bb1b-0ba3f7a683f5 X-Archives-Hash: 1f30267cad56970b51bf399780d1bfa9 On 12/31/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:12, "Richard Fish" > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...': > > On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list