Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:08:42 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster) |
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On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:43:33AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > Self-contained /dev is great, udev is a total PITA on older distros (on > > this box it sometimes takes 3 minutes for udev to boot ...) so turning > > on devtmpfs and getting something functional in exchange is a big > > selling point IMO. > > udev taking 3 minutes usually means you have a kernel driver bug, > udev doesn't have a sleep for 3 minutes, it loads drivers and usually > waits for them to finish. Since someone decided to merge a stupid > floppy PNP match I've seen a lot of floppyless machines hit a 30sec > udev delay. so many that we disabled the pnp floppy on Fedora.
Woah, I've run into this problem as well. Where is this PNP floppy match so I can disable it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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