Bug#610507: AW: AW: Bug#610507: squeeze/amd64 kernel: 180 seconds timeout when booting

["Aeschbacher, Fabrice" <Fabrice.Aeschbacher@siemens.com>]

Hi,
 
> > > > Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
> > > > Version: 2.6.32-30
> > > > 
> > > > When booting, there is a timeout of 180s between 
> "nouveau" driver is
> > > > initialized and swap activation.
> > > > 
> > > > See attached dmesg output (see: line 961)
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Most likely the TPM driver is having trouble.  Try this:
> > > 
> > >     echo 'blacklist tpm_infineon' > 
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-tpm.conf
> > 
> > It does not help.
> 
> Are any messages printed to the screen when this delay occurs, other
> than kernel log messages?
> 
> If you blacklist nouveau, does the delay go away?
> 
> Ben.

nouveau refuses to be blacklisted:

# echo 'blacklist nouveau' > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

Since I my last apt-get update / apt-get upgrade, I can see something
on the console now:

---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...                    <== timeout here
udevadm settle - timeout of 180 seconds reached, the event queue contains:
  /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:05:00.3 (1260)
done (timeout).
udevd[527]: worker [618] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100
udevd[527]: worker [618] failed by handling device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:05:00.3'
---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<---o<


Now: 

# lspci -s 05:00.3 -v
05:00.3 IPMI SMIC interface: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 816c (rev 01) (prog-if 01)
	Subsystem: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Device 1178
	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19
	I/O ports at 3c00 [size=256]
	Memory at f710e000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Memory at f7108000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

with kind regards,
Fabrice