On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: > > This is (most likely) a devfs bug, it was fixed by a patch by Andrey. If > > you have this hang often, please test attached patch (for some people it > > never occurs, for others only rarely) > > Hi > > Thanks for the help. > I applied this patch to the kernel source (it was a pain to download the package > with my 56k ...) and rebuilded the package, but depmod still hangs at boot. > Are you sure this patch can be applied to the current kernel source ? It was written > for Mandrake 9.1 kernel ... thanks for trying!
Well, if you did it correctly it should work. And it is only a one-liner in code that didn't change since last release AFAIK. If it really does not work, I am guilty of yelling at everbody (although other people have reported success with this patch). Anyway, can you produce a stack trace? alt-sysrq-T at the hang? please run it through ksymoops if needed. d.
