With udev-145 I got a message like: INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes it also mentioned /dev/tty[1-4] or so in there. Anyway, boot finished with a single terminal login prompt and no X. Downgrading to udev-141-r1 solved the problem again. Kernel is 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 with inotify: $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i inoti CONFIG_INOTIFY=y CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1, 3.1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.0 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 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: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -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/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect cvs distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans 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 nl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/home/marijn/git/gentoo-lisp-overlay /home/marijn/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk hal history iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kpathsea latex ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad metric mikmod mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session smp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb videos vorbis webkit x264 xinerama xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en nl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nouveau nv nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 201589 [details] config-2.6.26-gentoo-r1
I know this might not be a good solution but I stumbled about this problem as well on my router with vanilla 2.6.25.20 kernel. I got rid of the problem after I upgraded the kernel to vanilla 2.6.27 series.
Your kernel has CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y that udev will not run with! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 281312 ***
