Ubuntu
udev package

  1. Oneiric (11.10)
  2. Bug #818177
  3. Comment #54

Comment 54 for bug 818177

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James Hunt (jamesodhunt) wrote : Re: boot failures caused by udev race

@Adam/@Serge: could you try the following to see if it solves / reduces the occurrence of the problem. Also, can you report back if you see any "interesting" processes as logged by the change below:

1) Change initramfs to bind mount /dev and dump devices and running processes before udevd exits:

$ sudo sed -i.bak -e '/^udevadm control --exit/i echo "XXX: ps=`ps -ef`, \/dev=`ls -l \/dev`" > /dev/kmsg' -e 's!^mount -n -o move /dev!mount -n -o bind /dev!g' /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/udev
$ sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/initramfs.foo

2) Reboot setting "initrd /boot/initramfs.foo" in grub.