Bug#587065: "/etc/init.d/udev start" renders keyboard and video inoperable, hangs

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Jasen,

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2010, Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote:

>> running   /etc/init.d/udev start 
>> 
>> (like is done by /etc/rcS/S04udev ) renders keyboard and video 
>> inoperable and halts the boot process (as far as I can tell - network 
>> never comes up, case power button does nothing)
>
> Add udev.children-max=1 udev.exec-delay=10 to the kernel command line
> and then have fun finding out the buggy module.

So, did you try this?  Any other news?

Sorry for the long silence.
Jonathan