Hi, I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers? Cheers, Colin.
Just updated ~15 box x86_64 here to CentOS 5.5. Kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 works without any problem. Thanks CentOS team for this excellent work! On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 13:27, Colin Coles <colin at wemoto.com> wrote:> Hi, > ?I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on > 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I > revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers? > > Cheers, > Colin. >
On 05/15/2010 12:27 PM, Colin Coles wrote:> I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on > 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I > revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers?Do you have anything non-standard on the machines ? Start by looking at the h/w specs and setup. - KB
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Colin Coles <colin at wemoto.com> wrote:> Hi, > ?I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on > 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I > revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers?When I ran into a similar problem on a 5.4 system, the hints at http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2141 were helpful, particularly about increasing the udev logging level.
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 12:27 +0100, Colin Coles wrote:> Hi, > I have updated 8 machines so far and 2 are refusing to boot on > 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel, they just hang at: 'Starting udev:' but when I > revert to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 kernel they boot fine. Any pointers?I just updated a machine and also got a hang at udev. When I revert to kernel 2.6.18-164 it works fine. It appears to be a hard hang. Caps lock and num lock have no effect and I have to hit the reset button. I tried increasing udev log level to debug and it did not hang. I reduced the log level to info and it still did not hang. However, when I start X, esd seems to get stuck in a loop on a short segment of audio. If I kill esd, the desktop will finish initializing. Logging out of X also hung, but killing X manually worked. I have reverted to the old kernel. Linus