Re: 2.6.12 udev hangs at boot

[David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>]

I ran into the same issue last week on fedora core 3 so it's not _just_ a 
slackware problem.

David Lang

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Nick Warne wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:32:30 +0100
> From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
> To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: 2.6.12 udev hangs at boot
>
> On Monday 20 June 2005 20:21, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > It appears the issue people are seeing is with Slack 10, which shipped
> > > with udev 0.26 - and I presume there was 'custom' rules Patrick had built
> > > in.
> >
> > Ick.  Hm, there's not been any updates for slack since then? (note,
> > there was no 0.26 release, there are no '.' in udev releases.)
> >
> > Any Slackware users want to pester them for updates?
>
> Remember this is Slackware 10 here I am talking about - Slackware 10.1 has
> been released since, that uses as stock udev 50.  Slackware current uses udev
> 54.  Trouble is here also, GLIBC has been updated in latest Slackware[s], so
> there is no real upgrade path for Slack 10 users other than the whole
> caboodle - which breaks a lot if you have all the latest 'other stuff' built
> from source anyway.
>
> I guess many users don't upgrade all the system like I do to find these
> problems.  This appears to be just a gotcha for old Slackware 10 users like
> me.  Sometimes you read stuff about doing an upgrade, and unless it pokes yer
> eye out with a big stick you miss it... so it is isn't a big deal as long as
> people know about it - it's an easy fix.
>
> Nick
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