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Bug#591038: initramfs-tools: udev goes crazy spawnings many processes



* Zaar Hai <stronghold.dev.fornova.net@fornova.net> [Sat Jul 31, 2010 at 01:35:11PM +0300]:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.97.2
> Severity: important

> Recentl my system has stopped booting.

> I have two MD raid arrays with LVM on top of them. Each LVM volume (including root and swap) are encrypted, so obviously initramfs has to deal with them on boot. 
> Several weeks ago system stop booting:
> 1. First, I see a lot of message like show here http://imagebin.ca/view/eL-M9KQz.html.
> 2. Then I get password prompt to entery passphrase for a new volume.
> 3. After that nothing happens any more.

> Debugging shows that udevd behaves wierdly by endlessly spawning multiple children. I've made a workaound by killing udevd and restarting it in 
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot

With "spawning multiple children" you mean udevd processes?

Do you have any adjusted/3rd party/... scripts/hooks inside
/usr/share/initramfs-tools?

regards,
-mika-

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