[Gutsy] Udev deamon causes 100% cpu

[Gaëtan Petit]

Binary package hint: udev

Udevd causes a 100% cpu utilization at startup
I have to kill it manually

error message :
[ XXX.XXXXXX ] device-mapper : table 254:0: linear: dm-linear : Device lookup failed

Hardware information : Ibm thinkpad X24 laptop

Please ask for any logfile.

[sandalle (sandalle)]

Also happens on a Dell Latitude D630 which was upgraded from 6.06 to 7.04 to 7.10.

[Kuropka (d2)]

Same here on a Samsung Q20 Laptop. Additionally /var/log/messages get filled with entries like:

Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.704000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.728000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.752000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.772000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.796000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.816000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.840000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.860000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.884000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 28 18:13:00 localhost kernel: [ 581.912000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

[Kuropka (d2)]

Can anybody please take care of this bug... it's really annoying! It floods the console, the error log and makes the computer really slow when not killed manually.

[Kuropka (d2)]

Sorry, have seen to late that this is an duplicate. Removal of "evms" package solved the problem for me.

[Tor Bendiksen (tor-tblab)]

I experienced the same on a Thinkpad T30 upgraded from 5.04 -> 5.10 -> 6.06 -> 6.10.

Removing evms did indeed fix this.