On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:58:05PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote: > > Jun 11 17:48:13 upstairs udevd-event[1457]: wait_for_sysfs: wait for > > '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:0a.2/usb11/11-2/11-2:1.0/ho > >st4/ioerr_cnt' for 20 mseconds Jun 11 17:48:18 upstairs last message > > repeated 236 times > > This doesn't look good. It looks like a udev rule in your system is > looking for a file that will never show up. That's a short way to a > long delay time :) > > Try commenting out the rule that does this and see if things are fixed. > Yes, that's it. It's this rule, which appears as the second rule in the slackware rules file that's distributed with udev (and it's been there since udev-97 in August 2006): ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="ioerr_cnt" Commenting that rule out eliminates the pause in the boot and in the appearance of icons on my desktop. Thanks, Chris > thanks, > > greg k-h -- Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
