Comment 59 for bug 818177
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| Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote Re: boot failures caused by udev race | #59 |
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Ok. I have a machine here which triggers somethign similar to this pretty often. For me udev finds /dev is read-only and halts boot. This is presumably because our devtmpfs /dev has not made it into / when it starts. I was getting a failed boot about every 5-6 boots, 4 in 20 overall. I then used the work around in comment #54, with that in place I have 35 consecutive successful boots.
The conjecture is that /dev in the initramfs is busy and cannot be moved when needed. From the ps output in comment #57 it seems udev has not actually quit when requested, which might well account for this.