> To be absolutely sure you applied it correctly, and it is working, can you > type as root: > > while true ; do ls /dev/foo & rm -f /dev/foo & done > > better ctrl-c it after after a few 100 times. Than, check in ps ax if you > have all these processes hanging in the "D" state. If so: patch is not > applied correctly, or you are not running patched kernel. > > If it does not hang: your hang at boot is due to a different problem.
It doesn't hang. I've noticed that my old kernel, kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk, has the same problem on boot, it also hang in depmod :-/ Thanks for your help.
