Bug#333052: Bug#333522: possible problem cause: wait4(-1)
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:37:54AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 26, Horms <horms@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Just to clarify, udevd gets a bunch of events and tries to
> > serialise them into modprobe calls, right? Do you think there
> There is no serialization, only some throttling (IIRC it tries to run up
> to 10 child processes in parallel).
Ok, but it runs modprobe, not ismod, right?
> > is any chance it might be calling modprobe out of order
> > for some reason.
> The point is the dependencies are handled by modprobe, so the order in
> which udevd loads the modules at the top of the dependency tree is not
> relevant.
True.
> As Rusty suggested I wrapped /sbin/modprobe in a logger script, but so
> far I have not been able to reproduce the bug again (which may or may
> not be related, I need a few more reboots).
Thanks. I'm not having any luck reproducing the problem at all.
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Horms
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