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  1. Bug #818177
  2. Comment #109

Comment 109 for bug 818177

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Doug Weimer (dweimer) wrote : Re: boot failures because 'udevadm exit' times out while udevd waits for an already-dead thread

To echo davebb, I just downloaded the ubuntu-11.10-server-amd64.iso (md5: f8a0112b7cb5dcd6d564dbe59f18c35f) on 11/23/2011 and had this problem on two different systems. One was a Sun x4100 (AMD 8354, nvidia chipset, no LVM) and one was a Supermicro Intel box, no LVM.

In both cases the systems printed out a large number of the 'udev[90]: timeout: killing ' messages and then froze. The console didn't come up for over 45 minutes. I have left it running to see if the host ever comes up.

I see the fix is listed for oneiric updates. These errors happened for me on the first boot after an install and the machines don't finish booting. How can I get access to the fix during the install process?