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Re: SOLVED: Udev idling on startup



On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:22:34AM -0200, André Neves wrote:
> Setting udev's syslog level to DEBUG in /etc/udev/udev.conf helped me
> see what was the bottleneck. After the 30 seconds long pause, the next
> couple of message were about "settling", which, along with the graph
> that bootchart drawed for me and an afternoon of reading manpages led
> me to think that what was taking long was "udevadmin settle".
> 
> Indeed I was right. Cheking /etc/init.d/udev, near to the end there
> was a call to udevadmin settle. I added --timeout=1 to that line
> (default is 180, both in seconds), knowing that it wouldn't hurt,
> because I always hit Ctrl+C when the delay began anyway.
> 
> And it worked! Finally I'm done. Thanks everyone who helped!

"settle" waits for events to clear out. To what event did it actually 
wait?

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