On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: > > This is (most likely) a devfs bug, it was fixed by a patch by Andrey. If > > you have this hang often, please test attached patch (for some people it > > never occurs, for others only rarely) > > Hi > > Thanks for the help. > I applied this patch to the kernel source (it was a pain to download the package > with my 56k ...) and rebuilded the package, but depmod still hangs at boot. > Are you sure this patch can be applied to the current kernel source ? It was written > for Mandrake 9.1 kernel ... >
To be absolutely sure you applied it correctly, and it is working, can you type as root: while true ; do ls /dev/foo & rm -f /dev/foo & done better ctrl-c it after after a few 100 times. Than, check in ps ax if you have all these processes hanging in the "D" state. If so: patch is not applied correctly, or you are not running patched kernel. If it does not hang: your hang at boot is due to a different problem. d.
