Comment 4 for bug 439004

Hmm, I seem to have having similar issues on my laptop (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 7200RPM hard drive). Oddly enough, I have sometimes seen udevd sit there for around 10 seconds, doing seemingly nothing.

I believe in my case, sreadahead may just not be working -- I see spew at boot of "No suitable fs found in /proc/mounts, perhaps not nounted?"