Updated my vmplayer to latest, udevsettle has no issues... (unfortunatly, I'm also unsure of which prior vmplayer I had) sorry for the xtra mails... no issue at this time. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:52 PM, J Decker<d3ck0r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I didn't find a mailing list... the web page said "Questions > Any questions about udev should be addressed to" > > I have a linux distro that constantly has intermittant issues with > udevsettle (udevadm settle, now) hnging forever. I see tht the > default is 180 seconds, but I left the box attempting to boot for > abount an hour, and it never progressed... I booted with an > rdinit=/bin/sh and adjusted the scripts to set the timeout to 10 > seconds, and it still just hung forever. > > The platform is a pentium 4, running vista(32 bit), running VM player > and booting sorcerer (sorcerer.silverice.org) latest x86 iso. > (2.6.29.2 kernel, udev 141) > http://sorcerer.silverice.org/download/iso9660/2009/sorcerer-ia32-20090524.iso > > this is an issue that is present for a while, and if I ignore it, and > use older versions, or bypass the udevsettle altogether, then > eventually I'll get updates that all work again... > > On a tiny linux image I put together, I was also having some issues > with udevsettle hanging forever, but if I modprobed the disk driver > before doing the settle (don't remember if also before udevtrigger), > then udevsettle returns immediately, and all is well... > > but for now, I'm updating to latest vmplayer (2.5.2)... will post back > if that fixes the problem.... > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html