What's "Letting udev process events"?

maverick6664

Recently I fresh-installed Gentoo 2006.1 (since then used 2006.0 or older), since then, I get "Letting udev process events" message upon booting, and it halts there some time and fails there. Somehow I have no other problem.

So I wonder what's "Letting udev process events" and how can I pass it successfully?

Thanks in advance.
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wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

maverick6664 · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

Thank you for your explanation. I have 4 devices you mentioned, so it's not a factor. But I have more serious problem. I don't have /var/log/messages. What am I missing? I've never experienced this before. (btw I have installed syslog-ng)

EDIT: oops. I forgot to start syslog-ng. I fresh-installed current gentoo yesterday.
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wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

It may be that syslog-ng, which is in in the default runlevel, hasn't yet been started. /var/log/dmesg may be there but it will only show the messages up to where init starts â and it is after this that udevd starts.

If your /dev directory, as installed, is OK â if you used the minimal install CD then it should have come from the stage3 you downloaded â then all I can think of is running /sbin/udevstart after booting up from the install CD and chroot'ng.

You have networking enabled, don't you? It's needed for the kernel and udevd to communicate using the netlink protocol.
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maverick6664 · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject:

Now I started syslog-ng in the boot level(should it be in the default level?), delete /var/log/messages, reboot, and am looking at /var/log/messages. But it's too long and I don't know where to look at. There are a lot of "class_uevent -".... and "class_device_create_uevent called for ....". Do they matter?

I don't know where to copy&paste here, so I uploaded on a http server messages so anyone can see everything. If possible will anyone point where it is wrong?

EDIT: Since I have nothing wrong with it, I should not mind it....in a way.
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wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

As far as I can see it's OK â you've even got a user, 'tetsuji', logging in and performing a successful "su".

There's no udev error that I can see.

There are two failed authentication messages from webmin which appears to start on the third try.

The only error message comes from gnome-power-manager which won't start unless dbus is started and it then advises that, after starting it, the machine is rebooted.
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maverick6664 · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

Thank you for analysis.

Yes, webmin authentication fails twice every time. But webmin itself works fine, so I don't mind.
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nixnut · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
not about getting gentoo installed, so moved here.
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