Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 18:16:
> * Gaudenz Steinlin (gaudenz@soziologie.ch) wrote:
> > Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 17:38:
> > > * Gaudenz Steinlin (gaudenz@soziologie.ch) wrote:
> > > > Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 17:08:
> > > > > * Gaudenz Steinlin (gaudenz@soziologie.ch) wrote:
> > > > > > Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 21:58:

> I'm not at the machine atm, I can try this later, but what happened is
> this:
> 
> ---
> Setting up discover...
> Startup links already created...
> 
> Detecting hardware: 
> ---
> 
This looks like discover is hanging when detecting the hardware not when
loading modules.

> And that's where it hung, didn't say anything after that.  Over on the
> console I did a ps auwx and saw 'discover --module all' in the process
> list.  I think I tried to put 'all' in the 'skip' list next, but that
> didn't work ether, so I just hacked the postinst and set MODULES="". And
> commented out the discover --module all run (iirc).

The "all" does not mean all modules but all types of devices. You can
modify /etc/discover.conf to see which type of device causes it to hang.

Gaudenz