Comment 103 for bug 818177
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 818177] Re: boot failures because 'udevadm exit' times out while udevd waits for an already-dead thread | #103 |
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 08:08:34PM -0000, Eduard Hasenleithner wrote:
> > (I would prefer not to just '|| true' the udevadm call, though, since I
> > think having to occasionally reboot the machine again is better than being
> > left with extra udev processes running around doing who-knows-what on the
> > system.)
> Very valid point. But wouldn't it then be better in the case of udevadm-
> control failing to do something which gets 100% attention of the user,
> and with an explicit diagnosis message describing the problem? Simply
> not moving '/dev' to rootfs, and letting the failed boot to reach its
> "fate", seems to be a bit too obscure for me.
I agree. Could you file a new bug against the initramfs-tools package
requesting this?
> Being an "expert user", I would also like to have the busybox-shell for
> the failure case of course ;)
The obvious way to implement this would be to use the panic handler for
script failures.
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