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Re: SOLVED: Udev idling on startup



I didn't find that information, Tzafrir. How do I get that?

I couldn't really read the udev log messages during startup because
they just flashed too fast. The only thing I was able to discern was
the *settle* part.

André

> 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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