With a pure udev system (no device tarball) my firewire drive (at /dev/sda) causes the boot process to stop as apparently the device node is not quite setup. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.with udev system set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" in /etc/conf.d/rc 2.boot 3. Actual Results: Message: Failed to open the device /dev/sda1 No such file or directory. Then a message from (apparently) fsck, and an opportunity to provide the root password for maintenance or ctrl-d to boot normally. After ctrl-d, system boots normally, /dev/sdax gets mounted. No operating problems. Expected Results: A normal boot sequence, the halt should not have occurred. Bug seems to be virtually identical to one posted by a Debian user at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.3/0008.html except in this case the drive is a firewire device and not an SATA device.
Ah a fun race condition. This needs a kernel patch to fix :(
Meaning this is an upstream issue. It's not a udev bug, but a kernel bug/issue Nothing I can do in the udev package for this, sorry.
i do have the same problem. the only difference is that /dev/sda1 is actually my root device i.e. my system i try to boot, so, CONTROL-D results in rebooting the system. i'm also suffering from the race condition you're talking about but could fix it by adding rootdelay=10. so, the problem IS udev. emerge --info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-ck4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-ck4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 19:34:36)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -Os -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://mirror.switch.ch/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.math.bme.hu http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/" LC_ALL="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://blinkeye.ch/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl emboss encode esd fam flac foomatic foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww locales mad maildir mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba sasl sdl spell sqlite ssl svga symlink tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis wifi xine xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS using sys-fs/udev-045, sys-fs/devfsd-1.3.25-r8.
