On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:45:54PM -0500, Rob Lewis wrote: > I am running into an issue I have never really run into in the past with my > current laptop. Upon installing arch linux I reboot and face the following > issue which hangs forever during the bot process: > > Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY] > > I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with NVidia Optimus and I enabled NVidia > Discrete mode in the BIOS. I cannot boot into my system after installation, > however sometimes it will skip by this error and I will lose all keyboard > input and cannot login as a result. My workaround for the moment is to put > the BIOS into Optimus mode (Intel and NVidia cards are enabled) and use the > Intel video driver. I have tried nomodeset during the boot process but no > luck. Googling the problem i find most people get a timeout after 30 > seconds to find out what is causing the problem, but my system hangs > forever. > > Is anyone else running into this issue or experienced enough to help me > find out what the problem is? I have been running Arch since August 2011 > with no issues up until now. > > Any help is appreciated, > -Rob Maybe this thread can help. Many people seem to have problems with udev recently. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134012 -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
