On 12/31/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:12, "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...':
> On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since
> > then i've experienced complete freezes of the machine (nothing
> > responds, even external ping on the network) when USB devices are
> > mounted.
>
> All udev does is create device nodes...it cannot effect the operation
> of the device or cause the system to hang.
Newer versions of udev (particularly 103) can also load kernel modules,
which definitely can effect the operation of the device and can cause the
system to hang.
Well udev can load modules, but if that causes the system to hang, it
is almost certainly a bug in that module.
Marco, if you suspect this at all, you can set RC_COLDPLUG=no in
/etc/conf.d/rc to completely disable module loading by udev.
-Richard
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