When booting my laptop (~amd64) with kernel 2.6.29-r5 udev hangs on boot while processing uevents. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.29-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9400_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.0 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.29 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2 -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/init.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2 -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages installsources metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans usepkg userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en sv sv_SE en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude=".cvs" --exclude="patches"" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/ruby /usr/portage/local/private" SYNC="rsync://dx/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib accessibility acpi aiglx amd64 asf avahi avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding browserplugin bzip2 ccache cli cracklib crypt cscope css cups curl cvs dbus divx divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvb dvd dvdread ffmpeg flac foomaticdb freetype gcj gdbm geoip gimp gmedia gmp gpm htmlhandbook http iconv id3tag ieee1394 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java java6 javascript jfs jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdepim kdeprefix lm_sensors logitech-mouse maildir midi mmx mmx2 mmxext mng mod_python mono mozbranding moznopango mozsvg mp4 mplayer msn msse4.1 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia obex oggvorbis opengl openmp oscar pam pch pcre pdf pdflib perl phonon plasma ppds pppd python qt qt3support qt4 readline realmedia reflection reiserfs samba scanner session smp spl sse sse2 sse4cpudetection ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg symlink sysfs syslog taglib tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vim-with-x visualization vnc webkit wifi wmf wmp wxwindows x264 xcomposite xface xfs xine xorg xosd xpm xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en sv sv_SE en_US" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport harness ide java nb websvccommon ruby webcommon" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Fixed by, recompiling kernel (make distclean + make ...), reemerging udev, dbus and hal.
