Bug 112642 – init_udevd_socket messages during boot

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Akos Keresztes 2005-11-15 13:41:49 UTC]

When booting just after kernel messages I get many error messages like this:
"udevd[2478]: init_udevd_socket: bind failed, Address already in use"
(I cannot copy all of them here, because I cannot catch them)

Everything works fine, but these messages are very disturbing.

A very good description and a possible solution can be found here:
http://bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=874

# cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
  /sbin/udevsend

It happens only on my IBM Thinkpad T42 laptop, my desktop machine is ok.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -uvD
2. reboot
3. watch the console

Actual Results:  
Getting error messages

Expected Results:  
nothing

[Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2005-11-15 16:03:08 UTC]

Wow, took people long enough to report this :)

Anyway, yes, I know it's a problem, and how to fix it (get rid of hotplug), and
am working on it.  You can safely ignore the messages for now.

[Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2005-12-07 13:17:09 UTC]

Still happen with 077 release?

[Comment 3 Akos Keresztes 2005-12-10 08:53:44 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Still happen with 077 release?

Ok, it's resolved now. Thank you very much.

[Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2005-12-10 15:04:58 UTC]

great, closed.