I have full udev enabled system and coldplug on my boot runlevel. I also have a DXR3 DVD card, witch is loaded automaticaly by coldplug on boot. I have these lines for the relevant modules in my /etc/modules.d/aliases: # DXR3 section alias char-major-121 em8300 alias sound-slot-1 em8300 alias sound-service-1-0 em8300 alias sound-service-1-1 em8300 alias sound-service-1-3 em8300 alias sound-service-1-8 em8300 alias sound-service-1-12 em8300 below em8300 bt865 below bt865 sound-slot-0 sound-service-0-3 options em8300 use_bt865=1 dicom_fix=1 dicom_control=1 dicom_other_pal=1 bt865_ucode_timeout=1 options bt865 color_bars=0 post-install em8300 sleep 2 && /usr/local/bin/em8300setup The problem is that I get an error on boot saying that it failed to execute the post install command for the em8300 module. If I try modprobe em8300 from the console it works just fine. I didn't have this problem with baselayout-1.11.7-r2 so I reverted back to it and the problem is gone. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Baselayout-1.11.18 2. Reboot 3. Error during boot, post install command failed Actual Results: The post install command had failed to execute, requiring manual execution in order to fully enable the driver. Expected Results: Should had execute the proper command as per baselayout-1.11.7-r2 with no errors. Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7 Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -ftracer -finline-functions -fforce-addr -fprefetch-loop-arrays -w" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -ftracer -finline-functions -fforce-addr -fprefetch-loop-arrays -w" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://files.gentoo.gr http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X acpi alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dedicated dvd dvdr encode esd f77 flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir matroska mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php pic png pwdb python quicktime readline remote samba sasl sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts usb userlocales virus-scan x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
is your /usr or /usr/local on a diff partition ?
No, I only have 2 partinions, 1 for /boot and 1 for / . So /usr is part of the root filesystem.
did you post the exact error ?
I believe that I already stated that the error comes from modprobe, and say it cannot execute the post install command. No, I don't have the original phrasing, and I have already removed the baselayout-1.11.18 in order to eliminate to problem. Clould it be a udev problem? The root partition is definitely mounted when coldplug calls the module, so that can't be the problem. But the specific command requires a device present in /dev, that's why I have the sleep command, because there is small delay before the device node is created by the udev. I tried increasing the delay but I gave up at 5 seconds delay, beyond that the delay is just unacceptable.
try it with latest versions of baselayout and udev and see if it still errors
