Package: udev Version: 146-5 Severity: normal
I can confirm this also happens on the armel architecture, with the stock kernel (2.6.22.18), and started as Torsten mentioned above as part of a routine upgrade (in my case, on 21 Oct, having not done one for a few days). What differs is that even after killing all the 'udevd --daemon' processes, if I start up a single one, it is OK for a while, then relapses into the same behaviour. Also, the kernel log contained: Oct 21 20:28:23 sheeva kernel: udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable the kernel's CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option; udev may fail to work correctly Hope this helps # top 2949 root 21 -4 2448 952 496 R 98.3 0.2 1:06.70 udevd ... # ps ax | grep [u]devd | wc -l 63 # ps ax 2949 ? R<s 2:50 udevd --daemon 2965 ? S< 0:00 udevd --daemon ... # lsof -p 2949 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME udevd 2949 root cwd DIR 179,1 4096 2 / udevd 2949 root rtd DIR 179,1 4096 2 / udevd 2949 root txt REG 179,1 108752 16305 /sbin/udevd udevd 2949 root mem REG 179,1 121688 196084 /lib/ld-2.9.so udevd 2949 root mem REG 179,1 96164 196009 /lib/libselinux.so.1 udevd 2949 root mem REG 179,1 1209920 196087 /lib/libc-2.9.so udevd 2949 root mem REG 179,1 9808 196090 /lib/libdl-2.9.so udevd 2949 root mem REG 179,1 26480 196094 /lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so udevd 2949 root mem REG 179,1 75728 196093 /lib/libnsl-2.9.so udevd 2949 root mem REG 179,1 38608 196098 /lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so udevd 2949 root mem REG 179,1 42672 196096 /lib/libnss_files-2.9.so udevd 2949 root 0u CHR 1,3 0t0 424 /dev/null udevd 2949 root 1u CHR 1,3 0t0 424 /dev/null udevd 2949 root 2u CHR 1,3 0t0 424 /dev/null udevd 2949 root 3u REG 0,13 8 896307 /dev/.udev/queue.bin udevd 2949 root 4u unix 0xc173fce0 0t0 895088 socket udevd 2949 root 5u sock 0,4 0t0 895089 can't identify protocol udevd 2949 root 6r DIR 0,9 0 1 inotify udevd 2949 root 7u 0000 0,6 0 130 anon_inode udevd 2949 root 8u unix 0xc173fb60 0t0 895090 socket udevd 2949 root 9u unix 0xc173f560 0t0 895091 socket udevd 2949 root 12u unix 0xc173f860 0t0 895097 socket -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 0 -- /sys/: /sys/block/md0/dev /sys/block/mmcblk0/dev /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1/dev /sys/block/mtdblock0/dev /sys/block/mtdblock1/dev /sys/block/sda/dev /sys/block/sda/sda1/dev /sys/block/sda/sda2/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/btns/dev /sys/class/misc/cesa/dev /sys/class/misc/crypto/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/mtd/mtd0/dev /sys/class/mtd/mtd0ro/dev /sys/class/mtd/mtd1/dev /sys/class/mtd/mtd1ro/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev /sys/class/sound/audio/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.12/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.12_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.12_ep02/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.12_ep81/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev /sys/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev /sys/devices/platform/ehci_marvell.70059/usb1/1-1/dev /sys/devices/platform/ehci_marvell.70059/usb1/dev -- Kernel configuration: isapnp_init not present. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: armel (armv5tejl) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.18 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.85-4 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii util-linux 2.16.1-4 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages udev recommends: ii pciutils 1:3.1.4-2 Linux PCI Utilities ii usbutils 0.86-2 Linux USB utilities udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information: udev/reboot_needed: udev/new_kernel_needed: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

