Ok well I enabled loglevel=7 and rebooted with NVidia discrete on. Everything booted okay and worked which was a surprise. I rebooted again and then it booted but my keyboard did not work. After another hard reset, it froze on waiting for uevents again at e1000e load (Ethernet driver). I rebooted and and then it froze again on another step in uevents, just further in the process. I can't seem to reproduce the exact issue to provide a good log as to what is going wrong as sometimes it works or doesnt work, and sometimes it will work without keyboard support. I know it's a strange issue, but I desperately need a machine (and a discrete video card) to work with so I'm going to backup and install another distro or os for the time being. Was a good couple year run with Arch, i'll be back someday. Thanks, -Rob On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Rob Lewis <rrl125@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yeah sorry about that. The link is still useful as it confirms i'm not the > only one having the problem. I will take suggestions provided to find out > more detail on what is going on. > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:08 AM, gt <codered12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Well it would seem he still found it useful. But forgot to cc the >> mailing list. >> >> ----- Forwarded message from Rob Lewis <rrl125@xxxxxxxxx> ----- >> >> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:20:20 -0500 >> From: Rob Lewis <rrl125@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: gt <codered12@xxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed >> [BUSY] >> >> Thanks! That thread at least confirms that two others will the same laptop >> are having the same issue. As for what the problem is, not quite sure yet >> but I will try reverting to a older kernel. >> >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, gt <codered12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > 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 >> > >> >> ----- End forwarded message ----- >> > >
